Steamed Pudding dates back to the early 16th Century. It is a pudding made of fruit and nuts and is steamed in a molded pan that gives shape to its presentation. It is sliced like cake and served warm with whipped cream, ice cream or a warm glaze. The key to steamed pudding is that the batter goes into a…
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2 Ingredient Lemon Mousse
Fascinated by 2 Ingredient recipes, I had recently made the Lemon Bars and was impressed. So once again needing a contribution to a community dinner, I forged ahead and attempted the very easy, time saving, 2-ingredient Lemon Mousse. Whipped Cream and Lemon Curd was all that was required. As for measurements, all I needed to know was to work with…

Lemon Comstock Cake
A two ingredient dessert? Really? My ancestral frugal, make-due-with-what-you-have grandmothers would have loved this! But then there was the next generation of cooks, those iconic 1950’s women who worked to win baking contests and outdo the neighbors. Then there’s my generation, women who gave themselves permission to go buy a cake from a large food chain….and today we buy them…