The annual ginormous lemon meringue pie.

Pots au chocolat are a rare treat in this house. Not as demanding as a lemon meringue, but they can easily go wrong (in my hands anyway!). When I was at school I had a friend whose mother used to make proper lemon meringue pie. The first time I was offered some I thought I had died and gone to heaven! The nearest we came to an exotic pudding in our house was tinned pineapple slices with tinned cream! When I described it to my mother and suggested that she might try it, she muttered something about fancy foreign rubbish and that was the end of that!

Witzend my mouth is watering at the thought of your lemon meringue pie ?

Funny, I was just thinking this morning about lemon meringue pie, could I be bothered to make one for the weekend? I've got all the ingredients.
I find the pastry the biggest problem, I'm no good at pastry.
Wishing your husband many happy returns Witzend.
The only annual treats I can think of are 2 dishes traditional for Jewish New Year - honey cake, and a Hungarian dish of cabbage leaves, or peppers, stuffed with minced meat or chicken and baked in a spicey sauce. Holishkes.

Thank you, Fennel!
Have you tried readymade pastry, e.g. JusRol?

Mine usually turns out all right but then that’s down to my trusty old Kenwood Chef doing the rubbing in. Not sure how it’d turn out with my fingertips.

Hi Fennel , I've just been looking at Holishkes recipes. Thank you!
Love braised fennel too, btw

Sounds like my mum's used to be. " Desperate Dan " type pies and Cornish pasties like Dinosaurs. Yet none of us were overweight---apart from mum herself but she just overate!

Oooohh, greyduster. I haven't made Pots au Chocolate for ages. It was my go to pud - made with melted marshmallows.

My mum made a mean lemon meringue!!

kitty I would be interested in knowing how melted marshmallow works - it sounds lovely!

Lemon meringue pie has always been my favourite dessert, but I seldom make it as it's just me and DH these days and we try to "be good".

Lemon meringue pie my absolute favourite. My mouth is watering ?

I haven't made it for years gd - it was in the dark ages when the world was still in black and white.

Marshmallows, chocolate, butter and possibly egg yolks were melted over a pan of hot water and then beaten egg whites added - possibly!

It was a recipe from a card subscription type thing in the 70s I think.

If anyone can add more information,
I'd love to do them again.

This is very similar gd.

www.chocolate-source.co.uk/chocolate_recipes_mousse_pots_au_chocolate.htm

Thank you, Kitty. I may have a go at that this weekend when the gannets come to lunch!

Ours annual treat at Christmas is Mars Bar Mousse. I got the recipe from the Sunday times,over thirty years ago.
I serve it with langue de chat biscuits. (Home made of course!) ?

The pot au chocolate made with marshmallows is simply devine! I used the Delia Smith recipe and can vouch for how simple and easy it is to do. Very light, rather like a mousse, but very rich.

I think mine predates Delia chewbacca but I will investigate that one.

Just googled that and it didn't come up chewbacca - have you got a link? Xx

Sorry kittylester, it wasn't Delia at all, it was Nigella's recipe.

INGREDIENTS
Serves: 4-6

METRICCUPS
150 grams mini marshmallows
50 grams soft butter
250 grams good dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids) chopped into small pieces
60 millilitres hot water (from a recently boiled kettle)
284 millilitres double cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
METHOD
Put the marshmallows, butter, chocolate and water in a heavy-based saucepan.
Put the saucepan on the hob, over heat, though keep it fairly gentle, to melt the contents, stirring every now and again. Remove from the heat.
Meanwhile, whip the cream with the vanilla extract until thick, and then fold into the cooling chocolate mixture until you have a smooth, cohesive mixture.
Pour or scrape into 4 glasses or ramekins, about 175ml / ¾ cup each in capacity, or 6 smaller (125ml / ½ cup) ones, and chill until you want to eat.

Mmm Witzend lemon meringue pie. What a labour of love for your lucky DH?
We had lemon meringue pie as a dessert at our wedding in the 1970’s ?

Thank you chewbacca. No eggs in that one.

I'll give that a try.