Chilled Lemon Pudding

Name: Chilled Lemon Pudding
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 15 g/½ oz powdered gelatine; 1.5 dl/½ pint double cream; juice of 2 lemons; 1.5 dl/¼ pint water; 175 g/6 oz castor sugar; rind of 1 lemon; 4 large eggs

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Calendar Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1977

About

Most lemon mousse recipes have cream folded into the mixture. This one has the cream on top as a decoration, and the contrast of fresh lemon with smooth cream is a good one.

Ingredients

4 large eggs
175 g/6 oz castor sugar
rind of

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Separate the eggs, putting the yolks into one basin and the whites into a second. Add the sugar to the yolks along with the finely grated lemon rind and the lemon juice. To get the right lemon flavour, you need about 3–4 tablespoons lemon juice. Using a wooden spoon, stir the egg-yolk mixture well t