What is the finished dish ?

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

I have an old friend who loves to cook ... (Actually it was Eileen who first introduced me to braised leeks )

Anyway, she is not the most organised of people and as she gets older she is getting worse.

She called me yesterday: She had found a scrap of paper and on it was written '6 x eggs, sugar, cream and (4 ?) lemons .... pour into a pastry case ' So her question was what did I think the dish was called ...

I said I would ask you guys, but my thoughts were a lemon flan - Tarte au citron ???

She wants to make it next week as she has her grandson visiting for the first time in several years and who has especially requested his Grandma's Kedgeree, declaring it the best he has tasted.

TIA

[Suffs Profile]

Hmmm ... could it be Lemon Meringue Pie? I don't put cream in the filling, but I'd pour it over afterwards ........ and it'd be ideal grandson fodder

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I agree, an English version of Tarte au Citron - a lemon flan. Could also be Lemon Meringue Pie if you separated the eggs and used the whites for meringue.

I found an old recipe for Lemon Chiffon the other day - hadn't heard of that for years but it's not served in a pastry case.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

She is going to mix the ingredients including the zest and juice of the lemons, make or buy (in her case now) a flan case and see how it turns out .. I will let you know, but Em, your thought process was the same as mine

[Suffs Profile]

Perhaps your friend could give us her recipe for Kedgeree ... we're big kedgeree fans here and like to try different ways of preparing it.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

She thought her kedgeree was quite a basic one, but knowing her there will be some tweaks ... anyway I'll ask her. I do recall she made delicious fish cakes using mackeral .. can't remember if that recipe came from her own Mother who ran a boarding house in the Lake District, or her late husbands' Mum who was from St Helena ..

[Pepper Pig Profile]

I don’t think it would be lemon meringue pie would it because that usually has cornflour in as well?

[WWordsworth Profile]

I like the Hairy Bikers kedgeree the best.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

I don’t think it would be lemon meringue pie would it because that usually has cornflour in as well?

Yes, I agree and she said that she wouldn't have written down a recipe for lemon meringue pie as she has made that plenty of times ..