Lemon Curd - V.1

[Lucinda]

Finally got around to making lemon curd.
The recipe I used was too buttery, and a little too sweet, but I at least have the technique down. And it's edible.

Take a note from the wise:
If most of your recipes are on your computer, back them up! Since the death of my computer, I feel like I am back at square one figuring out some of the dishes I already had a handle on.

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. I've always wondered... what does one use lemon curd for/on?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

2. Lemon pie or lemon tart

Incidentally, I echo the call for backing up one's files. I lost over a year's worth of recipes, tax returns and other documents because I didn't do it.

[Lucinda]

6. Frustrating isn't it!?

And I knew better....just never got around to backing things up...

[Lucinda]

3. Scones, biscuits, tarts, and even spread on a tortilla for a really

low cal sweet treat. You can also use it as a doughnut filling.

Anything you'd use jelly or jam for

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. Thanks. I had seen it in stores near the jams in jars of the size...

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that contain more upscale preserves. I couldn't see that as practical for pies and tarts.
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And thanks again... I'm always looking for sweet fillings for tortillas (I use PB&J a LOT!!!)
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[Lucinda]

5. It has become my go-to sweet treat on a tortilla!

Really tangy and sweet at the same time. It would also be great to whip it with softened cream cheese.
I've been buying Dickinson's bottled curd, which is tart like a lemon meringue pie filling.
Once I perfect my recipe, I won't buy anymore. It's much better homemade and really easy.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

7. If you make a good-sized batch

It can be used for an ice cream base when making your own at home.

Strongly reminiscent of Dreyer's lemon custard ice cream that is no longer available.

[ljm2002]

8. On backing up files...

...you can get a backup hard drive cheap. Here's a page at Amazon with 1TB drives for under $100 and there's a 4TB drive for $160:

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=backup+hard+drive+external&tag=googhydr-20&index=electronics&hvadid=4348459959&hvpos=1t3&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8002227921502021211&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_36ltetraxy_b

I have a 1TB HP drive I got 3 years ago or so and it quietly backs up files, starting whenever my computer has been idle for 5 minutes.

I used to back up my photos to DVDs but that was time consuming and then I had to label them and store them. Now it all "just happens". It really is a big relief.

Of course since I do not do offsite storage, there could be a problem if the house burned down. But other than that, I'm good. Anyway I keep my best shots up on Flickr so there's a little offsite storage.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

9. In 1980, I was a systems administrator for a DEC PDP 11/70

At the time, a decent mini-computer. We decided to get a new hard drive for it, an RP06 with 178 megabytes on six platters. It cost $38,000, and was almost exactly the same size as my washing machine at home.

At about the same time, we upgraded the RAM from 500 kilobytes to 1.5 megabytes. It came on two boards which cost $3500. (We also discovered that Release 2.0 of PWB Unix would only address 1 megabyte of RAM. This, however, was easy to fix by changing a bit of the kernel.)

Now, we have 1 terabyte hard drives for a hundred bucks that I can fit into my jacket pocket, and 4 gigabyte SIMM chips for $50 that I can slip into my shirt pocket.