Tarte Au Citron

[Tilly2]

I made a Tarte au Citron today for the first time ever. I had some lemons I wanted to use up. I found a recipe online and here is a copied and pasted list of ingredients for the filling:
5 unwaxed lemons
275g caster sugar
4 eggs, beaten
300g unsalted butter

Please tell me that the 300g of butter was a mistake! That's more than a whole packet of butter. It must be wrong, surely!

[Gavmacp]

Look at bbc food site there is a Mary Berry recipe.

[woofgang]

Mary Berry doesn't use any butter in the filling, she uses cream
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/tarte_au_citron_94480

[boxtops]

this one has cream too, not butter http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/270447/Tarte-au-citron

[Tilly2]

I looked at the Mary berry one but I didn't have any cream. The one I used was a Guardian recipe.

I left the butter out!

[EcclesCake]

Recipe looks fine to me.

Cream is more commonly used but perhaps you should ask yourself what butter is made from!

[Tilly2]

er......................milk. It just seems like an awful lot of butter.

[Tilly2]

P.S. It was lovely and I didn't use the butter!

[EcclesCake]

As long as you enjoyed it that is what matters.

BTW, butter is made from cream.