Recipe for lemon curd

When our chickens lay too many eggs, I make some lovely lemon curd with the excess of eggs.

Here is the recipe I follow:

Whisk 6 eggs, 180g of sugar, 100 g of unsalted butter (beurre doux), and the zest and juice of 2 organic lemons. Cook it in bain marie (bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water). Keep stirring otherwise it may curdle until the mixture becomes thick. It will take about 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from heat.

It is ready to eat once it has cooled down. You can keep it in the fridge for 3 weeks. I can never keep it for more than one week – it seems to disappear quick!!

You can spread it on toasts, pancakes, waffles, or just eat it with the spoons whilst nobody is watching!!

Enjoy it!

La Chandeleur – Pancake day in France!

Pancakeday in France was Tuesday 2nd February this year. You know when it is coming as all the supermarkets in France start selling pancake pans and all the ingredients to make the pancakes (crêpes) about 2 weeks prior to La Chandeleur ! On Pancake Day some shops make “crêpes” for their customers! Even our local DIY shop in Evran! I must say if you don’t eat crêpes in Brittany, where else would you eat some?! Brittany is famous for their “crêpes” and “galettes” (savory pancakes made with buckwheat flour).

I make my pancake mix without measuring using fresh milk (very creamy!) from the farm down the road and the free range eggs from our little chickens. As it is cold at the moment our chickens don’t produce many eggs but luckily my friend Debbie share her surplus of eggs with me! Her chickens are a lot more productive than ours. She hasn’t told me yet her secret for her productivity!

Here is a recipe for the pancake mix:

• 250 g de farine (flour)
• 3 oeufs (eggs)
• 1/2 paquet de levure (half packet of backing powder)
• 1 pincée de sel (pinch of salt)
• 1/2 litre de lait (1/2 litre of milk)
• 3 cuillères à soupe d'eau (3 spoons of water)

I like pancakes with home-made jam (loganberry jam is my favorite) or chocolate spread (I guess you know which one I mean!). Looking at a British calendar Shrove Tuesday is next week and as my partner Chris is British I will have to make some more next week! Any excuse to eat pancakes….