{"id":23465,"date":"2026-02-07T11:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=23465"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:31:23","slug":"easy-microwave-lemon-curd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/easy-microwave-lemon-curd\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Microwave Lemon Curd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingarthurbaking.com\/recipes\/easy-microwave-lemon-curd-recipe\">from King Arthur<\/a> &#8211; modifications by Grandpa<\/p>\n<div class=\"recipe__ingredients-header\">\n<h2>Ingredients<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ingredients-list\">\n<div class=\"ingredient-section\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>3 medium lemon, zested<\/li>\n<li>Plus juice to make\u00a01 cup fresh lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>1 cup white sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 large eggs<\/li>\n<li>3 egg yolks<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly (not oil)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Gather the ingredients.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Whisk sugar, zest, butter, and half the juice and heat in a microwave.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Mix eggs in remaining lemon juice<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Temper heated juice into the cool lemon juice\/eggs<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Return to microwave bowl<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Microwave on high in 1-minute intervals, stirring after each interval<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Once it starts to come together, reduce time down to 30 second intervals.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Continue until thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Pour into small sterile jars<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Makes enough to fill 12 cupcake cups<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from King Arthur &#8211; modifications by Grandpa Ingredients 3 medium lemon, zested Plus juice to make\u00a01 cup fresh lemon juice 1 cup white sugar 2 large eggs 3 egg yolks \u00bd cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly (not oil) Gather the ingredients. Whisk sugar, zest, butter, and half the juice and heat in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/easy-microwave-lemon-curd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Easy Microwave Lemon Curd&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23470,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23465\/revisions\/23470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}