When life gives you lemons...

[ebonlock]

It took me about 5 minutes to pick these this afternoon, it didn't even put a dent in my heavily-laden tree

...beg your friends list for lemon-based recipes. Seriously, people, I'm up to my neck in the little yellow bastards and they just keep coming. So I'm asking you, my friends, for your favorite/family recipes or recipe ideas to use as many of these things as possible. It's that or give them to all my local friends for Xmas and nobody wants it to come to that, do they?

Comments

[tamago.livejournal.com]

I will happily take lemons.

Traditional use is, if course, lemonade:

Squeeze as many lemons as you like into a pyrex measuring cup. How much juice is that? Add an equal volume of sugar. Stir until sugar dissolves. Use sugar/lemon juice syrup in proportion 1:6 with water (or more or less, depending on your tastes) for lemonade. Also freezes well in ice cube blocks. Add one lemon/sugar cube to a glass of water (or soda water!) and stir to melt.

I also have lemon bars, lemon tea cookies & lemon cake recipes that have worked out well for me. Lemon curd makes a great gift, and is tasty on things. Let me know if you want any of these recipes.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

If you're serious about the lemons I'll give a bunch to Aelf tomorrow to give to you guys because OMG I haven't even made a dent. And yes I'd love, love, love a lemon curd recipe!!!

[esmerel.livejournal.com]

I've used http://www.joyofbaking.com/LemonCurd.html to good success - I like it because it's one of the easiest recipes and it doesn't require me to separate the eggs. WOO.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Sweet, thanks!

[tamago.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. Lemons please.

And can you go wrong with Alton Brown's lemon curd? http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/lemon-curd-recipe/index.html

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Aelf has a rather large bag of lemons and I'll have more this weekend :)