0 a thick, sweet substance made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter that you can spread on bread or cakes --
The most common commercial varieties are black cherry, blackcurrant, strawberry, passionfruit, raspberry, and lemon curd.
Homemade lemon curd was usually made in relatively small amounts as it did not keep as well as jam.
The resulting filling is a cross between marmalade and lemon curd.
Also, some varieties have lemon curd in the centre, with lemon icing on top.
Suzy's pie didn't look very attractive, had raw meringue and was too weak in texture, but the judges liked her lemon curd.
