Warm Lemon Curd Pudding

Today has been a thoroughly ugly day outside in London. It's felt like 7pm, even at noon, and the rain has been dumping down all day. I came home and spent an age practising the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante.

So it's time for a warm sunny lemon pudding.

My mum used to make this for me when I was little, and she had another name for it, but the Brit version I came across is called Lemon Self-Saucing Pudding. Which sounds a bit disgusting to me... more like a DIY caulking gun than the light and fluffy thing with tart curd nestling at the bottom. Recipe after the bump.

Warm Lemon Curd Pudding

Adapted from olive magazine April 2008

50g butter

100g caster sugar

100g icing sugar

2 lemons, 1 zested, both juiced

3 eggs, separated

50g plain flour, sifted

250ml milk

extra icing sugar for dusting

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/fan 160/gas gas 4. 

2. Cream the butter, sugar and lemon zest however you like to cream things until they're light coloured. In the original, all the sugar is caster sugar, but I found this left the pudding grainy, so I've halved it with icing sugar. Okay I admit I ran out of caster sugar and had to use the icing sugar, but it did turn out better. 

3. Add the lemon juice, egg yolks, flour and milk and mix until you get a smooth batter. 

4. Whisk the egg whites until firm but not stiff, and fold the two mixtures together.

5. Pour into a buttered ovenproof soufflé or baking dish and put it in a baking tray half filled with hot water. Bake for 45-50 minutes until the top is lightly browned and set and there is a sort of gooey lemon curd below. Remove the dish from the tray, dust with icing sugar and serve hot.

Comments

[monica]

Isnt this weather obscene? Yesterday I pulled out the high UV spectrum LUMIE light and got some sun that way. But look - the sky is blue today! Hope you are able to get out and enjoy some of it... while it lasts!

[Erin]

It was not fair that all that horribleness happened on a Monday. If it had been a Thursday I think I would have been okay. I think I need to invest in one of those UV lamps, I go a bit loopy come February.