Mark Hix

Sussex pond pudding

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
British Food
British Food

By Mark Hix

Published 2005

  • About

This unusual pudding is steamed with a whole lemon inside, which permeates the buttery sauce with its flavour as it cooks. When the pudding is turned out, it will be sitting in a pond of sweet lemony sauce.

Ingredients

  • 250 g (9 oz) self-raising flour, plus extra to dust
  • 125 g (4

Method

  1. Mix the flour and suet together in a bowl, then gradually mix in the milk to form a dough. The dough should be soft but firm enough to roll out.
  2. Roll out the dough to a circle large enough to line a 1.5 litre (2½