The Mad Hatter's Tea Party

[osprey_archer]

This weekend my aunt took me to the Mad Hatter Tea Room, where you choose a hat from an overflowing hat rack to wear while you drink tea (ours was called creme brulee, and did indeed taste surprisingly caramelly) and eat cucumber sandwiches and carrot cake and scones smothered in lemon curd.



The lemon curd was EPIC. Just sweet enough, but still quite tart. I must learn how to make it.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Lemon curd is *so easy*! And so rewarding!

I'll copy you in a recipe later today (but your aunt probably can give you an equally good one--maybe it will even be the same one)

Looks--and sounds--fun, and delicious.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Do! I have lemons around the house, I may even be able to make it tonight.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh, and now it's so late; you may be going to bed. But here you go:

3 ounces of butter (which this awesome website (http://www.traditionaloven.com/conversions_of_measures/butter_converter.html) tells me = 6 tablespoons)
2 large lemons
1 cup sugar
3 eggs, beaten

Get the lemon zest off the lemons. Zesters (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XX3JCCXSL._SL500_AA300_.jpg) are fun, but if you don't have one of those, just grate the lemons. Put this aside for use in a few minutes.

Squeeze the lemon juice out of the lemons and put this aside for use in a few minutes, too. (Take the seeds out.)

Over a double boiler [you can make one of these by putting a larger saucepan inside a smaller one; that's what I do; I don't have a double boiler], melt the butter. Add the sugar, lemon zest, and juice. Then add beaten eggs; stir till thick.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It will have to wait until I snag a new grater, but when the time comes I WILL BE READY.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! What fun!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Nothing like a tea party!

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[exuberantself.livejournal.com]

That is awesome.

I'm digging the veil, by the way.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I think I might need to get a hat with a veil. Someone needs to bring it back in style.