Paul kicks off the third week of his excellent food series ‘Paul Hollywood pies and Puds’ by visiting historian Dr Alex Langlands to trace the history of the Sussex pond pudding.

Sussex Pond Pudding is a traditional English pudding believed to originate from the county of Sussex. Made of a suet pastry which encases a whole lemon, with butter and sugar, it is boiled or steamed for several hours.

Paul and the doctor tried three different puddings from three different century’s, before the master baker decided to bake is own version, chocolate orange pond pudding. He replaced the lemon with the orange and sets out to create the pond that the other three versions did not have.

This rich and heavy dessert has gone out of fashion over the years but Paul’s version could see this Sussex lost treasure make a return to dinner tables up and down the country.