When I was in Scotland visiting relatives last summer, my husband’s cousin whipped together this lemon dessert for us. It is fascinating that lemon juice, sweetened condensed milk and heavy cream react together and thicken into this lovely, pudding-like consistency.

When asked what the dessert was called, Cousin shrugged and said she didn’t know. To me, this dessert’s closest cousin is lemon posset. Yet, possets are typically created by heating the ingredients. I searched around and couldn’t find a definitive answer. So we’ll just call it a possety thingy.

No matter the name, this is one really fantastic dessert. Lemony and creamy with a dreamy biscuit crust. It takes no time at all to put together. You just have to wait about 2 to 3 hours for it to firm up in the fridge.

Lemon Possety Dessert

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter
300g digestive biscuits, crushed
3 lemons
400g sweetened condensed milk
150 ml heavy cream

Directions:

1. Put butter in 13 x 9 inch glass baking dish. Cover with cling film and microwave until melted. (Don’t you just despise when you forget to cover butter that you are melting and it explodes all over the microwave oven?)

2. Add biscuit crumbs to melted butter. Stir together and press crust evenly over the bottom of the baking dish.

3. In a large bowl squeeze the juice from the lemons. Add the milk and cream. Stir well and pour over the crust.

4. Refrigerate until the lemony thing sets up, about 2 to 3 hours.

Serves a lot

A short song:
Eagleowl-I Am Nothing

So sweet:
Karen O And The Kids-All Is Love

Cheers!