Blueberry Curd
March 13, 2009 in snack
Yesterday I started worrying about next week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe. It calls for a glaze made from lemon marmalade and I don’t know how the other girls did, but I can’t find lemon marmalade to save my life! So I started digging through my cabinets for something to use as a glaze and when I spotted some blueberries in my freezer, I just knew what I was going to do.
The cake that we’re making is a lemon cake. Lemon + blueberry = best combination ever.
I made a curd because I knew it would be quick. I couldn’t find a good recipe on the interwebz so I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best.
It turned out really good though. A little thicker than I had hoped, but that’s easily fixed next time around. But yeah, really good. I filled up one small canning jar and half of it is gone already! I haven’t even made the cake that it’s supposed to go with! I heard it’s really good on ice cream. *wink*
Blueberry Curd
1 cup blueberries
1 tablespoon water
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
3 eggs, lightly beaten
Put blueberries and water in saucepan and cook over low heat until blueberries are very soft, about 10 minutes. Press mixture through a fine mesh sieve and put liquid back into saucepan off of the heat. Stir everything together and cook on medium-low heat, stirring constantly until mixture is thickened, about 5 minutes. Remember that it will continue to thicken as it cools.
um…yum! Blueberry curd, nice! And yes on the lemon + blueberry combo…I’m definitely gonna have to try to make some of this!
I LOVE blueberries, especially in desserts. This would be amazing on vanilla ice cream, topped with maple sugar.
Thanks!
I had NO idea a curd could be that easy! I will be giving this a whirl being a scone lover.
Just dropped over from PW’s site. Sometimes a just scout around looking for new blogs when I’m done reading hers. Lovely here. :) Blessings!
This sounds delicious! Don’t you know they’d be great on Ina Garten’s sour cream pancakes? Yummmm.
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i know this is an older post, hopefully you still check it! just wondering if you could do this curd the same way with strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc?
I’ve never tried but I’m almost positive you could. Let me know if you try – strawberry curd would be amazing!
I will definitely let you know if I try it and how it turned out. I think it would be heavenly inside some lemon cupcakes. Yum!