Hello Everyone,

I want to make a blood orange buttercream. I bought some blood orange concentrate and thought I should be able to follow rose’s recipe for passion fruit curd to make the blood orange curd but i’m not sure I can do this as blood oranges are more bitter and sweeter. Any suggestions? I was using 3 egg yolks, 1/2 c sugar, 3 tbsp butter, pinch of salt and 5 tbsp blood orange concentrate.

Hi Steve, Rose gives specific directions/ingredients for blood orange curd in the Pie and Pastry Bible, p.569. 

Are you basing this on the recipe in RHC?  She reduces freshly squeezed blood orange juice by half to make curd, so you may need to figure out how concentrated your concentrate is! 

To the passion curd recipe in RHC, try adding 1.5 tsp of orange zest, using 6T of concentrate (assuming it is double strength compared to juice), and 6T (75g) sugar. 

Good luck!

thanks.

I just tried making the blood orange curd from the PPB and it did not thicken in the oven. Even after an extended. time in. Has anyone Ebro had trouble with this recipe? Thanks!

I don’t have my book in front of me, but three things to check are if yolks were weighed, if the juice was reduced by half before making the curd, and if you brought it uniformly up to the right temperature in the pan, before putting it in the oven.  The oven time is just to re-connect bonds that were broken by stirring, it doesn’t serve as the main thickening reaction.  The main thickening reaction takes place in the saucepan.

Hope there’s something there that rings a bell and helps you resolve the issue.

Thanks! i think i figured it out: i didnt reduce the orange juice enough so it ended up being more liquidy than it should have been. But not all was lost: I scooped it out of the tart shell, strained it and used it to make orange mousseline!

cakemonster - 31 March 2012 11:10 PM

Thanks! i think i figured it out: i didnt reduce the orange juice enough so it ended up being more liquidy than it should have been. But not all was lost: I scooped it out of the tart shell, strained it and used it to make orange mousseline!

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