Lemon Posset

About the recipe

Delicious dessert, but historically a "posset" (from English) is a drink made from hot milk curdled with beer, wine or other alcoholic beverage and typically flavored with spices, drunk as a delicacy or as a remedy for colds.

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Servings:

4 persons

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Kitchen:

Working hours:

15 min

Total preparation:

5.5 hours

Course/dish:

Dessert

M, f, v or v

Veggie

Material:

Season:

Complexity:

Simple

Ingredients and supplies

300 ml whipped cream
60 g sugar
1 lemon
few mint leaves

Prep-work

Historically, a "posset" (from English) is a drink made from hot milk curdled with beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverage and typically flavored with spices, drunk as a delicacy or as a remedy for colds.

Nowadays a cold dessert made from thickened cream, usually flavoured with lemon.

Now that we know this... this is a terribly delicious fresh and velvety soft dessert. We know the recipe from Janneke Vreugdenhil from her NRC column of June 22, 2007! Here is the link!

Recipe only adapted to 4 persons! What is perfect does not need to be changed.

You can make this well in advance, as long as it is refrigerated.

Preparation

Add the sugar and bring to the boil while stirring.
Reduce the heat to low and let the cream simmer for one minute.
Turn off the heat and let the cream cool.
Stir in the lemon juice (optionally you can also add the lemon zest).
The acid causes the cream to thicken.
Pour the liquid into 4 glasses or bowls.
Add a mint leaf.
Cover with cling film and let the possets stiffen in the refrigerator for at least five hours.

KPK

29 december 2022