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JaimeAnn’s Lemon filling

JaimeAnn’s Lemon Filling

Ingredients

  • 1&1/2 cups sugar
    1/3 cup plus 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
    1&1/2 cups water
    3 egg yolks slightly beaten
    3 Tablespoons Butter
    3 teaspoons lemon rind
    3/4 cup fresh lemon juice

Instructions

    Mix sugar & cornstarch in medium saucepan, gradually stir in water

  1. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly till mixture comes to a full boil.
  2. Boil & stir 1-2 minutes. Gradually stir at least half of hot mixture into egg yolks.
  3. Blend it back into the pan. Boil & stir 2-3 minutes. ( if you don’t your filling
  4. will taste eggy). Remove from heat add butter lemon rind and lemon juice, mix well. Cool before using as cake filling , if using as pie filling you can pour it into a baked pie crust immediately.