Lemon Delicious Pudding Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Serves: 6-8 people
Ingredients Needed
For lemon sauce
- 50g/1.4ozs caster or superfine sugar
- 3 tablespoons/45ml/1.6flozs boiling water
- 2 tablespoons/30g/1oz butter cut into small pieces
- 2 tablespoons/30ml/1floz lemon juice
- Yellow food colouring (optional)
For Pudding
- 4 eggs (separated into 4 yolks and 4 whites)
- Pinch salt
- 125g/4ozs butter, melted
- 330ml/11.6ozs milk
- 1 cup/220g/7.7ozs caster or superfine sugar
- 165ml/5.8ozs lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
- 110g/3.9ozs plain all purpose flour or cake flour
- 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 - Preheat oven to 160C/320F fan forced. Have a large baking dish ready (mine was 24x17x7.5cms/9.4x6.7x3inches) and have another tray ready for a water bath that is slightly larger and deep. Put a kettle of water onto boil.
Step 2 - Make the lemon sauce ingredients first to give the sugar a chance to dissolve. In a small bowl add the sugar, boiling water, butter and lemon juice and whisk until you get a smooth mixture and most of the sugar has dissolved. Add a very sparing amount of lemon colouring (this is optional). Set aside.
Step 3 - Separate the whites making sure there is no yolk in them. In a clean bowl whisk with the pinch of salt whisk them until you get soft peaks.
Step 3b Thermomix - add butterfly whisk to TM bowl along with the egg whites and salt. Set to 1.5 minutes, speed 3.5. Set aside for use later.
Step 4 - Add the melted butter into a large bowl and whisk in the egg yolks (not the whites yet!), milk, sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest. In a small bowl whisk the flour and baking powder and then add it in and whisk the flour mixture into the liquid. The flour lumps will disappear with a little bit of mixing. Fold in the egg whites until all white lumps of meringue disappear.
Step 4b Thermomix - Add the melted butter, milk, sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest in the TM bowl and set to 10 seconds speed #4, scrape down and repeat. Add the flour and baking powder and set to turbo, twice scraping down the sides between each addition. Scoop into a bowl and fold in the egg whites until all white lumps of meringue disappear.
Step 5 - Pour the batter into the baking dish and then pour the sauce ingredients (just pour it in one area of the batter, no need to drizzle it all over). Bake for 20 minutes, then turn the pudding around, even if it looks pale, and bake for another 20 minutes. Important: let the pudding sit at room temperature for at least 1 hour before serving. You can serve this straight away but the sauce thickens up when it cools a little. I find it too liquid if I cut into it straight away.
Personal Note
I started making this lemon delicious pudding as soon as I got home from Switzerland as it was so cold when I arrived back and I just needed something delicious and saucy. I thought that I may have somehow miraculously beat jetlag from my trip. I usually take a light sleeping pill combo painkiller on long flights and I did on the way to Switzerland but it was my last one so I just went without. The sleeping pills are from America and not available here. I think the extra long sunlight in Switzerland helped and somehow I fell into the Swiss time zone without getting up in the middle of the night.
I wasn't sure what would happen when I got back because we usually take sleeping pills for the first few days but without any left I just tried to adjust. And somehow I slept like a baby through the night and just fell into Sydney time. I thought that somehow I had beat jetlag and even Mr NQN remarked how easy it had been.
But then the night after I arrived we went out to an event at a place about 30 minutes from our house. We had a great time and were driving home in the car and almost there when I looked down and did a double take.
"Where's my handbag?" I asked Mr NQN. I felt around the passenger area and the back seat and then realised that we had left it at the event! It was black, it was a dark event and a black floor and I guess I just hadn't seen it or remembered it. Luckily Laura was the PR person at the event and I called her panicked. "I have your bag!" she said and I hightailed it back there. I'm lucky it was at a private house and not at a restaurant where anyone could have taken it.
Then the next day I accidentally sent out my email newsletter twice, scheduling it at two different times. So perhaps I hadn't beat jetlag after all!
So tell me Dear Reader, what tips do you have to beat jetlag? Did you have lemon delicious pudding growing up?