Delicate Pudding Recipe

Ingredients for Delicate Pudding

• 1½ cups water
• ½ cup sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons corn starch
• 3 egg whites
• ½ cup lemon juice and grated rind

Instructions

1. Mix sugar, salt and water and bring to boiling point.
2. Mix the corn starch in a little cold water, stir into the boiling syrup and cook ten minutes.
3. Beat the egg whites to a dry froth and pour the boiling mixture into them; return to the fire one minute to set the egg, adding the lemon juice; turn into a mould that has been wet in cold water and set on ice.
4. Serve with strawberries or other fruit piled high in the center, or pour a soft custard around as a sauce.