Lemon Pudding Cakes

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 1995, America's Test Kitchen TV

During baking, this dessert’s batter separates into two distinct layers. To ensure top-notch cake and pudding, we’d have to unravel its culinary chemistry.

SERVES 6

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Despite the ease of a single batter to produce two texturally distinct layers, lemon pudding cake is a very unpredictable undertaking. With an understanding of the underlying processes that cause this characteristic separation, we were able...

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