Ingredients: |
Ingredients: For the lemon posset:
600ml double cream
140g castor sugar
grated zest and juice of 2 unwaxed lemons
For the butter shortbread:
25 g plain flour, sifted
170g salted butter, diced and kept cold
125g castor sugar, plus extra to dust
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Directions: |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 325ºF.
2. Heat the cream and sugar to scalding point, not boiling, in a small saucepan. While still on the heat, whisk in the lemon zest and juice and bring to a boil for 30 seconds, whisking all the time.
3. Remove the pan from the heat and put to one side for the posset mixture to cool. When cool, pour into 3 small (150ml) glasses, then refrigerate until set. This should take around 30 minutes.
4. To make the shortbread, whizz the flour, butter and castor sugar together in a food processor, until the mixture comes together. Alternatively you can do this with your hands by rubbing the mixture together between your fingertips and then lightly pressing it together to form a ball - don't overwork the dough at this stage.
5. Turn out on to a sheet of non-stick grease proof paper and roll out to ½ cm thickness using a rolling pin. Using a 5 cm round pastry cutter, cut out rounds of dough and carefully transfer to a baking sheet lined with more grease proof paper. Sprinkle with some extra castor sugar and bake in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes or until lightly golden. Once out of the oven allow the shortbread rounds to rest for 10 minutes.
6. Serve the posset chilled, accompanied by the warm shortbread.
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