My mother used to make a salad that had pear halves resting in lime jello and the pear halves had a ball of cream cheese in the center that had been rolled in nuts. She'd serve a square of this on a lettuce leaf. Does anyone have the recipe?
Limes are smaller and have less water content, making them both more sweet and more sour than lemons. Greater concentration of acid and sugar. The pH is a lemon is usually around 2.2, limes are as low as 1.8. And yeah, the color. It's weird to me, unripe limes are yellow, unripe lemons are green.
They react differently when mixed with certain ingredients. Typically, you would have a tropical drink made with lime juice, and a nice American summer drink would be made with lemon.
Yes, they taste different. Lemons are nicer.
