I hate wasting food, but sometimes things get ahead of me and I find myself with a wrinkly cabbage or an onion going soft. Usually, if it's too far gone for soup, the compost heap benefits, but this time faced with several dried out tangerines (that weren't very nice to start with), I thought I'd have a go at orange curd (like lemon curd, but with oranges). I confess I don't know now which recipe I followed, and in any case, as usual, I didn't follow it very closely (the batteries had run out in the kitchen scales, and I never was much good at following instructions in relation to food). The general gist is that you melt butter (or in this case margerine, as that's what we had), sugar, orange juice and zest until it's all combined, then stir in several whisked eggs (I've seen a few recipes just calling for yolks, but this one had whole eggs). You're meant to stir it until it goes thick, like custard, but I kept stirring, and stirring, and stirring, and it never really got much thicker, and eventually I got bored and put it in jars anyway, figuring I'd deal with it the next day. After a while it started to set at the top, which looked hopeful (if you ignored the liquid underneath), so it went into the fridge overnight. The next morning it was still the same, so I separated the set part into a tea cup, thought for a minute about trying to make the rest set, and decided instead to just leave it as a rich orangey sauce to pour over ice cream, rice pudding or whatever (or sneak the odd spoonful out of the jar). We ate the curd itself on some home made scones. And a couple of days later I mixed the rest of the sauce in with some cake batter and made slightly orangey fairy cakes. So I think I'd follow the recipe a bit better next time, but an experiment that ends with rice pudding, scones and fairy cakes can't be all bad, right?
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13/6/2020 10:06:41 am
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