Sussex Pond Pudding with a Whole Lemon

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 16:15:00 +0000

Sussex pond pudding is the most theatrical dessert in the British canon, and almost nobody makes it any more, which is a quiet tragedy. You steam a suet crust around a whole pricked lemon packed in butter and sugar for three hours, and when you turn it out and cut into it, a pond of dark, buttery, intensely lemony caramel comes flooding out onto the plate. The lemon inside has gone soft and edible, its bitterness tamed and its sharpness magnified, and the whole thing is somewhere between a pudding and a small edible miracle. It is old, it is slow, it is completely out of step with the way we cook now, and it is worth every one of its three hours.

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Sussex Pond Pudding with a Whole Lemon