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Lemon…butter. Lemon butter! I first peeked at a meyer lemon butter recipe in a recent issue (or maybe not so recent, I don’t know) of Living Magazine.  The intention of trying to make it at home stayed in the back of my mind, and I finally tried it out a couple of weeks ago.  One word: Heaven.  In our case, it is actually lime butter… lemons aren’t available all the time in Guatemala, but I have to say, it works!

It is very easy to make, and after it had set I tried it on toast with a little cream cheese.  It tasted like I had just smeared lemon meringue pie on my morning toast.

I’m trying strawberry butter next. Chocolate butter?  am I going too far?  Ok, how about… orange butter!  I also want to try some savory butters, like… maybe some sun dried tomato butter, with herbs and spices to spread over  freshly baked baguette.   I just got very hungry.

Helga

Lemon Butter

Recipe adapted from Kitchen Aid
Makes 1½ cups

 Ingredients:
2 large lemons, washed & towel dried
lemon rind from 1 lemon
1 stick unsalted butter, cut into cubes
¾ cup sugar
3 large eggs

Procedure:

1. Finely grate lemon rind from lemon and then cut lemons in half.  Juice them.
2. Place lemon rind, juice from the 2 lemons, butter and sugar into a medium sized, heavy based saucepan. Cook over a low heat until the sugar dissolves, stirring constantly with a silicon or wooden spoon. Set aside.
3. Attach wire whip to stand mixer and place eggs into mixing bowl. Mix on Speed 2 for 10 seconds, or until well combined. Add lemon mixture and increase to Speed 4. Mix for 30 seconds and then return mixture to saucepan.
4. Cook over a low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and coats back of spatula/wooden spoon – do not boil or mixture will curdle.
5. Pour into sterilized jars if keeping, or serve immediately.

Tips:

• To sterilize the jars, pour boiling water into and over clean jars and lids and stand for 5 minutes. Carefully tip out water and place jars up side down on a rack to dry. Do not dry with a tea towel.
• To obtain more juice from a lemon, microwave for 20 seconds on medium power – warming the lemon, increases the juice!

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