Lemon posset with rhubarb compote and crumble
This dessert is a truly spendid firework of flavours and a wonderful, uplifting end to a seriously hearty main dish. The silky, sweet and citric cream gives the first punch, quickly pushed by the soft, fibrous and acidulated rhubarb melting delightfully in the mouth. The crunchy crumble gives the taste buds a little rest before the next zingy bite. A thrilling end that will please even the fullest stomachs.

Lemon posset with rhubarb compote and crumble

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Recipe by: Anthony Boyd, the Glasshouse Restaurant, Kew
Busy:40 min, Total prep time: 1h15 min (plus overnight setting / marinating time)
Serves: about 8 
Start with the rhubarb compote:

Preheat oven to 130 degrees C.

Juice and zest the orange, chop the zest finely.

Wash and cut the rhubarb into inch size pieces.

Place in a tray or gratin dish with the sugar and orange and cover with tin foil.

Anthony says to cook for 45 mins or until soft, it took me almost 1 hour.

Prepare the lemon posset:

Place the cream, sugar, lemon juice and zest in a large heavy bottomed pan and bring to the boil, whisking constantly.

Once the cream is boiling, keep whisking for exactly two minutes while still on the burner. At boiling temperature, the lemon releases enzymes that will set the cream.

Take off the heat and pass through a fine sieve.

Set into moulds or glasses and refrigerate for 6 hours.

Prepare the crumble:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.

Place all the ingredients in a mixer and mix for about 5 min on slow speed. If you don’t have a mixer, mix all the dry ingredients together and sprinkle with small chunks of softened butter. With your fingers, mix the butter to the dry ingredients, pressing, kneading and fluffing the mixture with the tips of your fingers until obtaining a texture similar to that of ground almonds.

Cook in the oven until golden brown, for about 20 minutes. Stir the crumble halfway through for even colouring.

Serve the compote either warm or cold on top of the posset and topped with crumble.

Start with the rhubarb compote:

Preheat oven to 130 degrees C.

Juice and zest the orange, chop the zest finely.

Wash and cut the rhubarb into inch size pieces.

Place in a tray or gratin dish with the sugar and orange and cover with tin foil.

Anthony says to cook for 45 mins or until soft, it took me almost 1 hour.

Prepare the lemon posset:

Place the cream, sugar, lemon juice and zest in a large heavy bottomed pan and bring to the boil, whisking constantly.

Once the cream is boiling, keep whisking for exactly two minutes while still on the burner. At boiling temperature, the lemon releases enzymes that will set the cream.

Take off the heat and pass through a fine sieve.

Set into moulds or glasses and refrigerate for 6 hours.

Prepare the crumble:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.

Place all the ingredients in a mixer and mix for about 5 min on slow speed. If you don’t have a mixer, mix all the dry ingredients together and sprinkle with small chunks of softened butter. With your fingers, mix the butter to the dry ingredients, pressing, kneading and fluffing the mixture with the tips of your fingers until obtaining a texture similar to that of ground almonds.

Cook in the oven until golden brown, for about 20 minutes. Stir the crumble halfway through for even colouring.

Serve the compote either warm or cold on top of the posset and topped with crumble.

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Make this dessert a day ahead. The rhubarb will marinate in its juice and taste much sweeter the next day, which is what you want to have a perfect balance between sweet and sour.
Ingredients

Lemon posset
830 ml double cream
150 g castor sugar
3 lemons, juice and zest

Rhubarb compote
750 g forced rhubarb (pink)
190 g castor sugar
1 small orange, juice and zest

Crumble
100g plain flour
100g castor sugar
40 softened butter
20g ground almonds
10g flaked almonds

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