in her 1932 book Good Things in England, was based on one supplied to her by H J Glover and said to have been made "boiled in a cloth (the correct way) in 1905 by an old cottage woman in the village of Westham": Writing in 1939, the journalist and biographer Reginald Pound described "my native Sussex pond pudding" as "made of crust, brown sugar and butter", with lemons not mentioned. The first recorded version using a whole lemon was published in Jane Grigson's English Food (1974). Grigson said that the bitterness of the lemon improved the dish, claiming "versions of this pudding without the lemon are not worth bothering about". In her A History of English Food, Clarissa Dickson Wright describes the pudding as requiring "considerable flair to make", as the cook needs to scratch the lemon "so that its flavours burst out while it is being cooked". See also List of lemon dishes and beverages List of steamed foods References Sources English Food, Jane Grigson, Penguin Books Ltd, 1998 Edition English Puddings, Sweet and Savoury, Mary Norwak, Grub Street Publishing, 2004 Edition External links Sussex Pond Pudding Recipe by James Martin from the BBC. Ginger Sussex Pond Pudding Recipe by Allegra McEvedy from The Guardian. British puddings Sussex English cuisine Lemon dishes Steamed foods