In Menton today, the crowds are lining the streets to mark the beginning of the city’s lemon festival. I can’t make it down there, unfortunately, but I am with them in spirit. Well, in dessert, really.

I made lemon curd soufflés to celebrate the occasion, you see. I got the idea from my pornographic magazine of choice, French Property News. It had given over a whole page to things you could do with lemons.

Surprisingly, it gave a link to an American website, which gave measurements in cups. Whatever they are.

Frustrated, I turned to my old kitchen standby, Delia Smith, instead. She, of course, had a perfect recipe. It was simple – and in metric.

She billed her soufflés as ‘everlasting’, because they wouldn’t collapse. They shrank a little when I took them out of the oven, but they still looked like soufflés when I came to serve them.

I wasn’t sure about the lemon curd part of the recipe – but actually, it added zing to the result. Without it, the soufflés might have been blandly eggy.

“They shrank a little when I took them out of the oven, but they still looked like soufflés when I came to serve them”

I don’t think the lemons I used were actually from Menton. They came from Lidl.

Nevertheless, I think we can safely consider the Menton lemon festival officially launched.

13 Feb This entry was published on Sat, 13 Feb 2016 at 07:55. It’s filed under Food and wine and tagged Côte d’Azur, Dessert, Lemons, TV chef. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.