Steamed Lemon Pudding With Berry Compote Recipes

LUSCIOUS LEMON PUDDING WITH SUMMER BERRIES

Steps:

• Butter an ovenproof dish and heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/ gas 4. Carefully weigh out the butter and sugar into a bowl.
• Finely grate the zest from the lemons. For best results, grate, then turn the lemon a little and grate again, so you just take off the yellow skin rather than the pith below. Halve and squeeze the juice from the lemons - you need 100ml, so make up with a splash of water or more juice.
• Separate the eggs (put the whites in a large, clean bowl), being careful not to get any yolk in with them. Whizz the butter, sugar and zest in a food processor until creamy. Add the juice, whizz again; then, with the motor still running, tip in the yolks, flour and milk to form a smooth batter.
• Whisk the egg whites, preferably with an electric hand whisk, until firm but not stiff. Pour in the lemon batter, then gently fold the 2 mixtures together with a large metal spoon, being light-handed so that you don't knock out all the air from the whites. Don't worry if it looks a bit lumpy.
• Pour the mixture into the buttered dish, then put it in a roasting tin. Pour in a kettle of hot water into the tin so it is half-filled (this is called a bain marie). Ask an adult to help you with this bit. Bake for 35 mins until the top is set and there is a saucy lemon curd below. Use oven gloves to remove it from the oven.
• While the pudding is baking, pull or cut the hulls (the green tops) from the strawberries. Halve or slice them if large. Put in a bowl with the blueberries, then spoon over the cordial or sugar and mix together. Remove the pudding from the tin, dust with icing sugar through a sieve and serve warm or cold, with the berries.

STEAMED LEMON PUDDING WITH BERRY COMPOTE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325*F.
• Grease the insides of eight, 4 oz.
• ramekins with butter and coat with sugar.
• Set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the buttermilk, lemon juice and egg yolks.
• In another bowl, mix the flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt and lemon zest.
• In another bowl whip the egg whites to soft peaks.
• Whisk the dry ingredients into the buttermilk mixture, then fold in the egg whites, one third at a time.
• Ladle the batter into the prepared ramekins, filling them almost to the top.
• Place the ramekins in a roasting pan, and pour warm water around them, until it comes halfways up the sides of the ramekins.
• Cover with foil and bake for 18 minutes.
• REmove the foil, rotate the pan front to back, and bake for another 20 to 25 minutes, until the pudding is golden and springs back when lightly touched.
• While the pudding is baking, place the blueberries in a saucepan with the sugar and cook over medium heat until the berries just start to burst.
• (You want most of the berries to stay whole) Remove from heat and fold in raspberries.
• Serve the puddings at room temperature on plates surrounded with the compote.
• Delicious!

ENGLISH STEAMED LEMON PUDDING

Steps:

• Beat together the butter and sugar until light and creamy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time.
• Fold in flour, salt, baking powder, lemon rind and juice.
• Place in a buttered 4 cup bowl. Cover the bowl with aluminum foil.
• Place bowl in a steamer. Steam the pudding over boiling water on top of the stove for 1 1/4 hours.
• Heat preserves with the water.
• Unmold the pudding. Pour apricot sauce over the pudding and serve hot. 6 servings.
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