155: Orange jelly with lemon and cardamom, p106

The pudding for tonight's dinner party of errors... non-vegan* unfortunately, but another one ticked off in the book... I didn't have quite enough oranges for just under a litre of juice so I added some orange juice from a carton to the mix as well, and it seemed to work still. I thought it was going to be incredibly acidic and sour as there is no sugar or anything sweet in the ingredients, but amazingly it wasn't, once it was set (another worry, but it did actually set - hurray, and phew!) it was a really nice zingy finish to the meal, and the cardamom was subtle and not too strong at all. Sometimes I find cardamom a bit overpowering but it wasn't too much at all in this, especially with such a strong citrus flavour to counter.

*The new vegan friend seemed happy with a bowl of peach slices and a jug of cream-substitute made out of oats. Which we all swiped as well - rather nice, and agreed is much better than soya cream-substitute :)