Tuesdays with Dorie: Lemon Cup Custard

     This week's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, from the cookbook Baking:  From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan is Lemon Cup Custard, can be found on page 387, and was chosen by Bridget of The Way the Cookie Crumbles.  If you would like to try the recipe before buying the book, click on Bridget's site above and she will have it posted today.   

      A week without chocolate...and lemon is my favorite flavor!  I was really looking forward to making custard as truly, I have never made or even eaten a custard before.   

      The recipe was really easy:  milk infused with lemon zest heated, whisked together with four eggs and a half a cup of sugar, and that's pretty much it.  After pouring it into the little bowls, it bakes in a water bath for 45 minutes, cools to room temperature, and gets nice and chilly in the frig for a couple of hours.   

      It looks so pretty and creamy.  It tastes so creamy...and a whole lot like eggs.  Go figure. 

      The portion size is very large...in hindsight, I should have baked this in twelve cups instead of six as one little cup of this rich custard is way way too much.  And, it tastes a whole lot like eggs.  Lemon infused eggs.         

      Matt agreed to pose this week, so people can actually see that my baking is edible, as there are those who question this on a weekly basis.  (I did, after all, join this group to learn how to bake.)

        First, let me tell you, Matt does not like eggs.  I forgot that little fact when I said, "I need a taster photo, are you available?"  He took one bite and said, "This tastes like eggs...."   

      Oops...we started laughing and he agreed it wasn't Dorie's fault that he doesn't like eggs, so he said, "It isn't that bad for eggs..." and gave a thumbs up, while putting the bowl aside and hitting the cookie jar instead. 

      Mark thought it was good.  I liked the lemon part (I am not a big fan of eggs either usually).   So, all in all, it looks like Mark gets to eat a whole lotta lemon custard this week! 

      Next week's recipe was chosen by Liliana of My Cookbook Addiction is French Yogurt Cake with Marmalade Glaze, and can be found on pages 224-225. 

      Click here  and then click on individual bakers' blogs at the site if you would like to see more of this week's recipe and the various ways people interpreted their quest.  It is too late to join the online TWD baking blog, but you can always join us in spirit as the recipes for upcoming weeks are posted on the site and you can bake along in your own kitchen.  See you there!