Lemon delicious pudding

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Lemon delicious pudding is a quietly ingenious dessert from Australia and New Zealand that performs its own magic in the oven. As it bakes, the batter separates into two distinct layers—a tangy, lemony sauce pooling at the bottom while the top rises into something light and sponge-like. It's the kind of dish that looks simple but rewards you with two textures in every spoonful, and its roots reach back centuries into English kitchen tradition.

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Lemon delicious pudding is an Australian and New Zealand dessert. As the pudding bakes, it separates, and the bottom remains a liquid lemony sauce while the top becomes fluffy and sponge-like. Similar recipes can be found in English cookbooks as far back as the 17th century. A recipe from 1946 noted that while popular, the ingredients might be hard to come by under rationing and a letter to the editor in 1960 suggested that in times of economic prosperity it could be eaten weekly. There is a variant using orange in place of lemon.

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