Dessert Recipes - Orange Posset Recipe

Ingredients

• Finely grated rind and juice of 1 large orange

• 600 ml/2 1/2 cups double (heavy) cream

• 150 ml/2/3 cup sweet white wine

• 5 ml/1 tsp lemon juice

• Icing (confectioners') sugar, sifted

• 3 egg whites

• Crystallized (candied) orange slices, to decorate

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Method:

1. Whisk together the orange rind and cream until stiff. Whisk in the wine and orange and lemon juices and sweeten to taste with icing sugar.

2. Whisk the egg whites until stiff and fold in with a metal spoon. Turn into a glass serving dish and chill.

3. Whisk again to blend before serving and decorate with crystallized (candied) orange slices.