Lemon curd on toast.

[TheRookie]

I have bought lemon curd to have on toast but I am severely underwhelmed... I used to eat this when I was a child but it's no where near as good. What have I done wrong?

How do you want your curd in toast??

Another vote for Tesco Finest. Also.. anyone tried it with mashed banana on toast / in a sandwich too? Food of the Gods! :-)

M&S Sicilian is lovely

Decent curd on a crumpet is the best thing ever!

Yes! The combination of the bitter / sweet / salt (and delicious, delicious fat content) is what makes it.

I'm decidedly unfussy about the brand / type of lemon curd or bread, but the butter has to be good - ideally Irish butter such as Kerrygold.

I misread your comment as 'mashed potato' and thought 'nah, that's a step too far'. 😄

Ooh I love a bit a lemon curd on toast. Mmmm.
This has reminded me to ask my mum to make her annual trip to Waitrose to get me some orange curd 🍊

I love homemade lemon curd on toast. As other pp have said it's easy to make.

Also, silver shred, lemon marmalade is great on toast.

Lemon curd tarts are quick to make - also lemon meringue (from the Be-Ro book). I always use extra egg whites for the meringue and make an egg custard tart with left over yolks at the same time.

I'm off to buy lots of lemons now! This thread has brought on a baking attack.

It really does need the butter otherwise the bread can be too dry with just the curd. It's not a dense enough spread on it's own

What you buy now bears no resemblance to what you got years ago. Now it's all artificial and margarine rather than butter and lemons. Agree, make your own (I do it in the microwave, takes 10 minutes tops including juicing the lemons) or go for one of the 'homemade' types - but even then read the ingredients. Some of them aren't much better than the mass produced supermarket own brand.

if for any reason I buy it, it's buy Pennine Way Preserves All Butter Lemon Cheese. Pennine Way.

Haha, @AffIt I SUPPOSE it could be worth trying? ;-)

This thread is making my mouth water

Rookie error, OP - the cheap own-brand stuff is absolutely awful, basically yellow wallpaper paste. The good stuff is a world away from that muck.

Yuk, marmalade is the answer

I have only two things to say,

Firstly Don't bother with buying lemon curd, making it yourself with untaxed Almalfi lemons is the way to get it taste like lemon curd

Secondly Don't bother with toast, hold out for the real deal

https://www.theorandall.com/en/amalfi-lemon-tart/

Serve with a dollop of full fat sour creme, a few fresh raspberries and a light dusting of icing sugar.

I used to make lemon curd years ago and orange curd too, homemade is the best and not that tricky.

But you should get some marshmallow fluff and put it on top, lemon meringue toast.

I am def trying this. I love lemon curd frosting (cream cheese, lemon curd and icing sugar).

Ok I've made a terrible mistake. Cheap 79p curd is getting chucked and I'm going to Tesco for their finest 👌🏻

Don't chuck it, don't you have a husband/partner you could use it up on?

🤣🤣

These Tiptree ones are delicious.

The Passionfruit curd is absolutely the most nicest gorgeous tasting thing ever. Fact.😋

I like the sound of this ha

No butter, white bread, most expensive curd you can afford. Lovely!

It seems he's more of a lemon curd snob that I... I do have 2 small children though 🤔

Thank you!
I had a passionfruit curd from Aldi a while ago and it was utterly delicious. They haven't had it since and I haven't seen any elsewhere. A trip to Waitrose beckons...

Ohh, and another passionfruit one.