Using up lemons - hate waste!

[mrsflibble]

Does anyone have a recipe for lemon magic pudding? I know it has a real name i just can't remember it (blame the new medication not kicking in yet ) it's a pudding you make in one go, pour into a dish then bake and it comes out as sponge on top and sauce underneath...
?!

[contadina]

The lovely Rosie Elliot calls it lemon surprise pudding:

25g/1oz butter
100g/4oz caster sugar
grated rind and juice of one lemon
2 eggs, separated
150ml/5fl oz milk
25g/1oz plain four
a little extra butter for greasing

Preheat oven to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5. Lightly grease 1-pint oven-proof dish. also have another roasting tin ready that is bigger to put he first one in.

Cream butter with 25g/1oz sugar, then beat in lemon rind and juice, egg yolks, milk, flour and remaining sugar.

Whisk egg whites until stiff, then fold into lemon mixture. Pour into prepared dish. Stand the dish into the roasting tin and pour 1 inch of boiling water into it. Bake for around 40 mins until risen and golden.

[hedgewitch]

Lemon juice is great for neutralising alkaline substances such as limescale and removing dirt from wood surfaces, making them ideal to use as eco friendly cleaning alternatives - and they make your house smell really nice and clean.

Furniture Polish
2 or 3 tablespoons lemon juice
A few drops food-grade linseed oil or jojoba oil

Place the lemon juice in a bowl, add a few drops of the oil, and saturate dusting cloth with the liquid. Use the cloth to dust with.

Linseed oil is the first choice for furniture oil because it dries completely over time. Its nutlike fragrance is an added plus. Jojoba is actually not an oil but a liquid wax, and it never goes rancid, so it also makes a great choice.
Use old, worn out wool socks or pieces of ragged wool sweaters as dustcloths, since wool makes beneficial static that practically makes the dust fly up off your furniture.

more information

[snapdragon]

//--- Use old, worn out wool socks or pieces of ragged wool sweaters as dustcloths, since wool makes beneficial static that practically makes the dust fly up off your furniture.

I love the smell of linseed oil on the furniture - but the wool thing interests me greatly - sounds like a good way to use the not-quite-right spun wool - knit into dusters thank you hedgewitch

[Milims]

Does anyone have a recipe for lemon cordial?

[marshlander]

since you ask, milims, i googled it and came up with this one

http://www.abc.net.au/hobart/stories/s717888.htm

says any citrus fruit so limes too! Time for a cup of tea me thinks!

[Milims]

Thank you Marshlander! I had looked but cam up with nothing! Guess what I'm up to this afternoon! Incidentally I've also been making rather lovely lemon cake - it's very simple
Cream 4 oz marge with 4 oz sugar, beat in 2 eggs and the flinely chopped rind of a lemon. Fold in 4 oz flour. Bake at about 180deg for about 1/2 hour - until it's done basically. Meanwhile squeeze the juice out of the lemon and mix with icing sugar. When the cake is cooked prick it over the surface and allow it to cool a little. While still warm spoon over the lemon/icing sugar mix and allow to cool fully. Yummy!

[snapdragon]

Thank you Marshlander! I had looked but cam up with nothing! Guess what I'm up to this afternoon! Incidentally I've also been making rather lovely lemon cake ...................... Yummy!

Wooooo I remember making that many many years ago and have since lost the recipe ThanQ Milims

[marshlander]

is that a 7 inch tin, milims?

[Milims]

I usually use a small loaf tin but I guess a 7 inch tin would do just as well

[oldfella]

I usually slice mine and pop them in the freezer. I take them out as required and prevent them from going off by placing them in an alcohol preservative!

Preservative in France is a condom

[Milims]

Good job I don't live in france then!!

[possum]

I make an indian pickle, like the sort you get in a pickle tray in an indian restaurant.

12 limes or lemons, halved and deseeded
115g salt
25g mustard powder
70g chilli powder
25g ground fenugreek
1 tblsp ground turmeric
300 ml mustdard oil
15g yellow mustard seeds - crushed
1/2 tsp asafoetida

(alternatively you can buy the spice mix already made up at an indian grocers

Cut each half lime into 4 pieces and pack into large jar, sprinkling with salt at the same time
cover and leave to stand in a warm place for 10-14 days or until the limes/lemons have turned brown and softened

mix spices and add to jar, stir and mix, leave for 2 days
transfer lime mixture to a heatproff bowl

heat oil and mustard seeds and asafoetida and cook, stirring constantly until the oil is very hot, stop as soon as the oil starts to smoke

pour oil over limes and mix, put into jars.

leave a week before eating

this keeps quite a long time.

[mrsflibble]

Preservative in France is a condom

thought that was préservatif?!

did you kow you can fit 5litres of water in a condom. mmmmm SAS survival guidey-goodness.

[oldfella]

Preservative in France is a condom

did you kow you can fit 5litres of water in a condom. mmmmm SAS survival guidey-goodness.

Yup and 10lts if you are in the Green Berets