Lemon delicious puddings
Cookbook Challenge: Week 36
Theme: Comfort Food
Recipe: Lemon delicious puddings
From: AWW Bake
The theme for this week’s Cookbook Challenge is “comfort food”. After a rather busy week, this weekend has been incredibly lazy so something comforting and puddingish sounded good to me.
I have rather a lot of lemons (due to Maria giving me 5kgs from her tree) and I’ve been doing my best to cook and bake my way through them. So for this week’s theme, I decided to make lemon delicious in an effort to use up more lemons. If you don’t know what lemon delicious, it’s a classic – a baked pudding that ends up with two layers: a light sponge on top of a tangy sauce.
My puddings were well risen when I took them out of the oven, but by the time I got around to taking photos they had deflated. Well, they still tasted good! I loved the lightness of the sponge layer, and the almost custardy sauce. But next time I make it, I would reduce the sugar – they were a bit sweeter than I wanted.
It’s such a great pudding – warm, but not too heavy. And well named too, since it really is delicious!
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Lemon delicious puddings
From The Australian Women’s Weekly Bake
Serves 6
125g butter, melted
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon rind
1&1/2 cup (330g) caster sugar
3 eggs, separated
1/2 cup (75g) self-raising flour
1/3 cup (80ml) lemon juice
1&1/3 cups (330ml) milk
Preheat the oven to 180°C and grease six 1-cup ramekins.
In a large bowl, combine the butter, lemon rind, caster sugar and egg yolks. Stir in the sifted flour and lemon juice.
Gradually add the milk, stirring until combined and smooth.
Beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Fold a third of the egg whites into the lemon mixture with a large spoon. Gently fold in the rest of the egg whites.
Place the ramekins in a large baking dish and divide the lemon mixture among them. Add enough water to the baking dish to come halfway up the sides of the ramekins.
Bake the puddings for about 35 minutes.
penny aka jeroxie
July 25, 2010 @ 11:02 pm
Gosh I have a lemon tree to take care of as well! Was thinking of making lemon curd macarons… heh
Hannah
July 26, 2010 @ 4:04 pm
Dear BFF, did you know that lemon delicious is one of, if not my favourite dessert? It was the first recipe I ever blogged, too 🙂 Mine is more souffle-y than sponge-y, but is definitely tangy-intense, so might suit your less-sweet inklings. 🙂
Comfort food indeedy-doody!
Lingy
July 27, 2010 @ 9:33 pm
Your lemon delicious sure looks really delicious! I must give it a go, I love lemon everything! hehe! Wow can't wait to see Penny's macarons!!!
Agnes
July 27, 2010 @ 10:03 pm
Penny: OOOH good luck with the macarons!
Hannah: Of course I know it's one of your favourite desserts – we have that psychic link going on after all!
Lingy: Hehee, I love lemon things too! Lemon delicious is such an amazing pudding 😀
April @ My Food Trail
July 28, 2010 @ 10:21 am
I've heard of a lemon delicious pudding before but never really knew what it was. Thanks for clearing that up!
It really does look delicious without being too heavy!
OohLookBel
July 28, 2010 @ 10:34 am
I've gotten into puddings so much lately that I am turning into one! Lemon delicious looks so light and luscious, I want to try these next.
Maria@TheGourmetChallenge
July 28, 2010 @ 1:12 pm
I've seen these pudding so often, but never tried one…ever! Sounds really good, with that custard bottoms. I've been going a bit dessert mad lately…..maybe I can squeeze dessert into breakfast as well! Oh….thats my idea of heaven!
Conor @ Hold the Beef
July 31, 2010 @ 1:03 am
I'm suspicious of anything that uses the word delicious in its title. Lemon OK, or Lemon Nice would be better, no? Then when it looks and tastes this good, it's a lovely surprise for everyone!
Agnes
August 2, 2010 @ 9:57 pm
April: Aren't blogs amazing – I'm always learning new things about food! 😀
Bel: Lemon puddings are awesome, I do like how they're not too heavy for a pudding.
Maria: WHAT, you've never tried one?! Where have you been all these years?? 😉
Conor: Haha, Lemon Nice! There's no point being modest if you're a pudding – who wants to be Nice when you can be Delicious?