445 egg yolk lemon recipes

Shortbread crust and lots of fresh plums, simple ingredients make this delicious plum tart!

Traditional Irish apple cake with a buttery shortbread-style crust layered around spiced applesauce. A rustic Sunday dessert served warm with whipped cream, ice cream, or lemon sauce.

A from-scratch cheesecake with a buttery lemon shortbread crust, rich cream cheese filling, and homemade tart cherry sauce. This is the cheesecake you make when you mean business.

Lemon meringue pie with a tangy, buttery curd in a flaky shell, topped with a cloud of toasted meringue. The classic Southern dessert that earns its place at every Sunday supper.

Traditional Passover apple pie made with matzo meal crust instead of flour. Unique dough from soaked matzos, hard-boiled egg yolks, and butter.

Asparagus cornet with lemon dressing wraps puff pastry into golden cones, fills them with crisp-tender asparagus spears, and serves over a homemade lemon-mustard mayonnaise. Restaurant-grade plated appetizer for special occasions.

Poached cobia fillets rolled and secured with toothpicks, served in a rich lemon-cream sauce made from the poaching liquid, egg yolks, white wine, and butter. Elegant French-style fish.

Amazing lemon meringue pie uses both cornstarch and flour for a curd that holds clean wedges. Lemon juice goes into the meringue too for a stable foam that resists weeping.

Sunshine cake with bright lemon frosting, an airy egg-yolk-and-white sponge baked in a tube pan with lemon zest and extract. Tender, fragrant, finished with a tangy lemon glaze.

Austrian Mozart cookies with a buttery shortbread base, apricot rum filling, and confectioners sugar. Elegant sandwich cookies with a ring-and-circle design.

Italian fisherman's bread with golden raisins, candied citrus peels, fennel seeds, and Marsala wine. A rich, buttery quick bread with no yeast, scored in a decorative grid.

Italian blueberry gelato made with a real egg yolk custard, pureed fresh blueberries, lemon zest, and whipped cream folded in before churning.

Italian ricotta cheesecake with lemon zest, whipped cream, and fluffy beaten egg whites folded into a light, creamy filling on a graham cracker crust. Freezer-friendly.

Steamed salmon or trout fillets topped with a from-scratch hollandaise sauce built on a crushed peppercorn and white wine vinegar reduction. Classic French technique with rich, buttery results.

I got this recipe out of McCall’s magazine about 35 – 40 yrs ago from the pages of the McCall’s Cooking School and have made it a number of times since.

Fattigmands bakkelese are traditional Norwegian deep-fried pastry cookies with cardamom, citron, and lemon juice. Rich egg yolk dough rolled thin, cut into diamond shapes, and fried until golden and crisp.