Today’s lemon thing is quite possibly the weirdest one for the month, but when I stumbled across the recipe, I knew I had to try it. And now none of you have to, because I fell on that sword for you. You’re welcome.
So what is this weird thing, you ask? Fondue. Lemon fondue, to be exact.
It sounded like such an intriguing concept, and it seemed pretty straightforward. Water, sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice and butter. I figured it would be a bit like a lemon curd. What could possibly go wrong?
Ha. First of all, it was really runny. Sure, the cornstarch-sugar mixture thickened, but not very much, so that at the end, we were left with this anemic slightly sweet lemon water sort of concoction.
As for what to dip in the fondue, I have this recipe for lemon pound cake, and pound cake goes well with sweet fondue, and I have made it several times before with no issues. But this time the cake crumbled into bits once I tried to dump it out of the pan.
Mmm, doesn’t *that* look appetizing.
Oh, we did try to make this work, carefully dipping chunks of cake into the runny lemon stuff, but….yeah, no.
Ah well. At least the cake was tasty, even if it was in pieces.
Lemons used: 3
Total lemons this month: 36.
Making a lemon thing a day for Thingadailies.