14 Reviews of Lime, Orange or Lemon Curd

From: Evie*

On Oct 27, 2002

I made the lemon curd variety. It has the 'right' amount of sweet and the 'right' amount of tart for me. I did find it didnt thicken up as much as other lemon curd recipes Ive tried, but still an easy tasty recipe. Thanks for posting.

From: Chef #218172

On Jun 1, 2005

Made the Lime Curd. It was awesome nice and tart. Nephew said like eating Key Lime Pie! Then made the lemon loved it. Like Lemon pie! Easy to make. Just follow the directions.

From: Roosie

On Nov 27, 2004

Lovely! I made normal" lemon curd, but I would really like to try the other variations or maybe grapefruit curd or blood orange curd or tangarine curd... or even just a citrus curd with a blend of different fruits! This recipe is so easy and turns out so delicious and lovely. I made a half recipe using 75mL juice from organic lemons and the zest of 2 lemons (I dropped a bit, so we added a tiny bit of organic valencia orange zest as well). Sweet-tart and a glistening rich gold color. Very good balance of the flavors. This is rich and intensely flavored- you don't need much, but you will want to eat it on everything. I, like Heather, had no problem with this setting up- you do have to cook for the full amount of time, though. I actually used turbanado (unbleached) sugar, so mine is even more golden, but it is so beautiful with a taste to match! Thanks for the wonderful recipe, Annelies- I can't wait to try it again!

From: HeatherFeather

On Jan 3, 2003

Excellent curd! I used 4 small limes and one medium sized lemon. Be careful to measure out the juice to just 150 ml as I had extra juice leftover. I cooked mine the full 25 minutes and found it set up just fine. It has a lovely color and the bits of zest floating in the curd make it glisten. It is really quite attractive and tastes as good as it looks.

From: Bayhill

On Sep 30, 2007

*Made for Adopt-A-Tag* Delicious!! I love lemon curd and this recipe made a wonderful tart/sweet curd. I used "unsalted" butter and whisked some of the hot lemon mixture into the eggs, then I whisked the egg mixture into the lemon mixture. This produced a smooth lemon curd with minimal bits of cooked egg. I can't wait to try this with other citrus fruits. Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe...it is definitely a keeper!!

From: Chef #583275

On Sep 9, 2007

This was easy and delicious. I strained the mixture immediately after adding the eggs, it was silky smooth and had a great clean lime taste.

From: HerbofGrace

On Dec 19, 2007

Awesome recipe! Super easy and tastes great. This is my "friends and neighbors" christmas present this year. Plan to make several batches this week. I'm planning to try the orange, so will edit with quantities, since no one else seems to have tried it yet. ETA: Zest from three oranges and juice from about two and a half seem to do the trick! I tried decreasing the sugar on the orange curd, but it's not a good idea-- didn't set up correctly. Lime tastes awesome, too!!

From: Chef #1230348

On Aug 8, 2009

I made a lovely lime curd from this recipe. It was, as others have noted, easy and the perfect flavor. I used it as a mix in to a homemade french vanilla ice cream. It was a yummy, tart, summertime treat!

From: Cheffie M

On Jun 18, 2009

Very easy and quite tasty. I tried the lime flavor since I had some limes in my fridge that needed to be used up. I cooled and chilled it, then folded some of the curd into some whipped topping and served it with shortbread cookies. It was delicious. I was eating spoonfuls of it by itself. I added the lime zest while it was cooking because I couldn't see wasting all that flavor from the zest, but I'm sure it would be great without it if you wanted to use the bottled juice. I will try this recipe for my lemon curd too. I love the fact that it uses whole eggs instead of just the yolks. Try this recipe, I'm sure it will be a hit!

From: MarieAlice

On Jun 30, 2006

I made this yesterday as a filling for a lime/coconut cake (Delia's recipe) and was really happy with the results. It was lovely and rich with lots of fresh lime flavour! I could just eat it by the spoonful and in fact had great fun scraping out the pot and licking the spoon after. Great directions, very easy to follow and the result is the perfect lime curd, full of delicious lime flavour! Thanks for a great recipe!