Baked Lemon Dessert
Ingredients
50 g butter
220 g castor sugar
1 zest of lemon
100 ml lemon juice
3 eggs, separated
50 g flour
250 ml milk
1. Preheat the oven to 180º C and boil a kettle.
2. Grease six large ramekins or one large dish.
3. Place ramekins in a rectangular cake tin or a casserole dish.
4. Place butter, lemon zest and sugar into a food processor and blitz on high until butter is pale.
5. Add lemon juice, flour, egg yolks and milk and mix to a smooth batter.
6. Whisk egg whites till firm, they shouldn’t be stiff.
7. Fold the mixtures together.
8. Divide batter between the ramekins.
9. Pour hot water into the dish till the water goes about half way up the sides of the ramekins.
10. Bake for 45 minutes.
11. Remove the ramekins from the water and serve warm.
Source: Grace Stevens, Everyday baking and decorating.
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