Am I the last to know about sweet lemons?

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CathyZ

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Oh good grief.

For Easter dinner for 6 tonight I am making a simple dinner of glazed ham, au gratin potatoes, roasted asparagus, salad and a double lemon cream pie for dessert.

Like everywhere in Hawaii, citrus trees of all sorts abound on Kauai so I asked my DH to bring some home from the yard of one of his handyman jobs. He did. Lovely little round yellow lemons. I bruised the surface just to make sure. Yup. Lemons. That was yesterday.

So today, Easter dinner is being prepped here. I started the double lemon cream pie. I zested 5 lemons, juiced a few and tasted the juice just to see how much sugar I'd need. To my horror I found the lemons were SWEET! Like oranges! Oh my gosh. I quickly Googled and found there is a variety called Citrus Limetta which is commonly known as Persian Lemon or Middle Eastern Lemon. I had to quickly add a LOT of bottled lemon juice and more corn starch to make the filling work but I did.

Have any of you used these odd lemons? When I Googled it said that you eat them just like oranges. Yow. Of all the thousands of citrus trees on this island my DH happened on a sweet one. Just my luck. LOL.

 
No-too late in the prepping process so I had to use bottled lemon juice to fix it.

Thankfully it all turned out okay but it certainly was not my best effort.

 
Pretty sure I did this too

One time I got a slew (30+) of lemons at the produce store and juiced them (by hand) for a vat of lemonade for a party. Only after I was done did I taste the juice. It was awful and basically had no taste - had to toss the whole thing and start over.

I've decided those things are evil and shouldn't be called lemons at all. The market only had them listed as "lemons" - so felt totally ripped off. (shakes fist at sky!)

I feel your pain, glad you were able to save the recipe.

 
I just bought some sweet limes that really look like lemons. Maybe we've got it wrong here.

They are yellow and large but were sold as sweet limes. I haven't used them yet.

 
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