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Sussex Pond Pudding
- Serves
4
- Difficulty
Easy
Published 2010
This curious dish, obviously native to Sussex, needs a thin-skinned lemon that will burst inside the pudding during cooking, forming ‘the pond’ when you cut open the dish for serving. This was something that fascinated me as a child and I have loved it ever since.
Ingredients
10 g ½ oz 350 g 12
Method
Butter a large pudding basin with the softened butter. Roll out the suet pastry to 2 cm (¾ inch) thick, make a circle for the lid and use the rest to line the pudding basin.
Cut the cold butter into 8 pieces and put 4 into the basin with half the sugar. Prick the lemon all over with a skewer so that the juice can escape. Stand the lemon vertically in the sugar and butter, then mould the
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