Experimental Lemon Napalm and other pursuits

[dchenes]

Over the past week, aside from shoveling snow and buying things, I've done a fair bit of reading and playing Civ 4 and embroidering. I also did a little experimental cooking, and thereby invented Lemon Napalm.

I tried making a Shaker Lemon Pie a couple of months or so ago, and decided that while the level of lemonness was very nice, it was a bit much like a marmalade pie for my taste. I hate marmalade. So this time I put the lemon slices-and-sugar through the blender and then put the eggs in it, and that cut down the "ew, marmalade!" factor quite a bit. However, I didn't really think about crust until after I'd put the eggs in. Since I didn't want raw eggs sitting around while I did something about crust, and I didn't want to refrigerate the filling and have it take all afternoon to get baked, I baked it plain. It did NOT want to come off the knife, hence the Napalm. (I probably should have let it cool a little more.) However, once it did cool off a little more, it was very very tasty.

Next time, I'm going to take the lemon rinds out entirely after they sit in sugar overnight, and see if the lemon juice-and-sugar by itself is what I really wanted. Sounds like lemon bars to me, and I think I might put some rosemary in the crust.

I also think Experimental Lemon Napalm should probably be the name for my next computer.

Comments

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Sounds like what you really need is a lemon bar crust or a tart crust.

While not what you are trying to achieve, we made the smitten kitchen recipe for clementine cake last week. It came out very nicely but I felt that I would have preferred to make it with lemons instead. I think I'm going to give it a try sometime in the next month. Want to taste it when I do?

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

I was toying with the idea of putting it on shortbread, but I didn't have enough butter in the house and anyway I waited too long to mess around with crust in the first place.

Yes, I want to try the lemontine cake. (What else are you going to call a clementine cake recipe with lemons in it instead?)

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Lemontine is better than Lemonade or Lemoncello (which tastes like floor varnish most of the time if you ask me)

Lemon cake isn't going to be made this weekend because this weekend is already looking messy schedule-wise. But maybe the weekend after?

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

How about the Sunday of the weekend after? (Also known as January 17)