Ren Behan - Author Wild Honey and Rye

Food Writer

Lemon Pudding (Leon)

As mentioned in my review post yesterday, this week I’ve been enjoying baking from the new Leon Baking & Puddings book. I hope you’ve been enjoying some baking too for National Baking Week!

Octopus Books have kindly offered three books to giveway to my readers as well as giving me permission to share this lovely recipe called Jossy’s Lemon Pudding Delicious.

This recipe is one of the ‘Friends and Family’ recipes in this book and one that Henry’s great granny Enid handed down to his mother. I love handed-down family recipes and this one is a real treat – we’ll be making it for pudding after Sunday lunch.

I hope you give it a go and also enter the giveway below.   

Jossy’s Lemon Pudding Delicious – Posted with the kind permission of Octopus Publishing

This pudding was one that Henry’s great granny Enid handed down to his mother. It was cut out from a newspaper and was called ‘Lemon Pudding’ – next to it Enid had written ‘delicious!’

Serves: 6, Preparation time: 20 minutes, Cooking time: 40 minutes, V

Ingredients:

50g unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus extra for greasing

225g golden caster sugar

Finely grated zest and juice of 2 large lemons

4 large free-range eggs, separated

50g self-raising flour

225ml whole milk

½ level teaspoon cream of tartar

Icing sugar, for sprinkling

Method: 

1. Heat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4 and place a roasting tin half-filled with water on the centre shelf to warm up. Butter a 1.5–1.75 litre soufflé or other ovenproof dish.

2. Whisk the butter in a large bowl until soft, then add the sugar and whisk until fluffy. Gradually whisk in the lemon juice, followed by the grated lemon zest and the egg yolks.

3. Sift the flour on to the mixture and stir it in with a metal spoon, then gradually stir in the milk. Whisk thoroughly until very smooth.

4. In a clean bowl, whisk the egg whites with the cream of tartar using an electric hand mixer until they stand in soft peaks. Then, using a metal spoon, fold them gently into the pudding mixture, about a quarter at a time.

5. Pour the mixture into the soufflé dish and stand it in the roasting tin of water in the oven. Bake for 40 minutes, or slightly less in a fan oven, until risen and golden brown on top.

6. Serve hot or cold, with a little icing sugar sifted over the surface if you like.

 

GIVEAWAY – ENTER HERE TO WIN ONE OF THREE COPIES OF LEON BAKING & PUDDINGS

 Ways to enter:

1. “Like” the LEON RESTAURANT Facebook Page and leave me a comment on this blog post to tell me you have done so
 
2. Follow Octopus_Books on Twitter and leave me a comment on this blog post to tell me you have done so
 
3. Tweet this post using the button below and leave a comment telling me that you have done so including your Twitter username
 
4. Follow me @RenBehan on Twitter and again leave a comment in the box below to tell me that you have done so, including your Twitter username
 
5. Visit the Fabulicious Food on Facebook and “Like” and leave a comment on this post to tell me you have done so
 
You can enter this competition via any or all of the five ways described above but you must leave me a separate comment for each time you have entered.  No details of any of the entrants will be passed onto anyone else.
 
The winner will be chosen by an online randomiser.  I will be able to see your email and contact you if you have won, but your email will not be visible to the public and will NOT be passed on.

This giveaway is open to all UK readers.

Closing date: Friday 28th October at midday
 
The winners will be announced the same day. Octopus Books will be sending the books out directly to the winners.
 
GOOD LUCK!

About Ren

Ren Behan is a British-born food writer of Polish descent. She is a mum to three young children (13, 10 and 5) and spends lots of time with them in the kitchen. Ren writes about seasonal, family-friendly food on her blog www.renbehan.com. She also contributes recipes and articles to online and print food publications, such as Food52.com, GreatBritishChefs.com, Huff Post Food and JamieOliver.com. She holds a Diploma in Food Journalism with Distinction and has completed a Food Styling course at Leiths School of Food and Wine.

Ren’s cookbook, Wild Honey and Rye: Modern Polish Recipes, draws upon her Polish heritage and regular travels to Poland.

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  11. Followed on Twitter RenBehan, octopus books, retweeted as FARAWAYSKIES
    followed leon & fabilicious food on facebook too

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  49. Shane Andrews has liked LEON RESTAURANTs face book page

    @shanecompg13 is following octopus books on twitter

    Have tweeted this post

    @shanecompg13 is following @RenBehan on twitter

    I have liked Fabulicious Food on Facebook

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  56. Ok scratch that previous comment, zero marks for me for not posting each individual entry as per the rules! Will post all separate now, sorry!

    I have liked Fabulicious on Facebook (Natalie Px)

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  57. Hi, I have done all the listed entry methods! Top marks for me! 🙂
    On Facebook I am Natalie Px and on Twitter I am Glitter_Arti

    Thanks! Going to go and make some food now this has made me hungry!

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  92. i have liked all the facebook pages, and followed all the twitter pages (@baudsley)- i am hereby telling you i have done so!!

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  172. The Jossy’s Lemon Pudding Delicious looks so yummy.
    I love baking, i love finding new recipes in books and online.
    I love seeing a ‘real’ picture of a cake/pudding made by someone who isn’t a top chef as i feel its more achievable.
    I think i will make the Jossy’s Lemon Pudding Delicious this week, we all love lemony cakes and puddings so i think it’s going to go down well.
    I have just spotted your Macaroni Cheese with Baby Leeks, my son and myself love Macaroni Cheese. I am definitely going to be making that this week, it looks so nice.

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  190. Hi, I have liked, shared, followed and tweeted and now im off to the kitchen to make Jossy’s Lemon Pudding Delicious !

    FB/stagedoorchris
    Twitter @compevent

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  221. liked and commented on facebook, i am really getting back into baking , and love searching for ideas in books and internet, i never had a mother that baked or cooked , so i have had to teach myself but now i spend time with my daughter reading and trying out recipes and we love it.

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  254. I figured may as well try as many times as possible to win the book!!! Im following you on twitter now @ icklejo82

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  270. What a fabulous giveaway – I haven’t seen this latest book, but have heard lots about it – including your review. I’m following you on Twitter
    @Choclette8

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