If you have cream, sugar, a couple of lemons and some fresh berries in your kitchen right now, you’re only a few hours away from tasting your new favorite dessert. Posset is a chilled English dessert ...

An easy and delicious heritage recipe for Lemon Posset to make your own! “I would desire no more excellent dish to prolong life, than a mess of posset curds.” Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore (1604) ...

It was the name that intrigued me. Lemon posset. Also the fact that this smooth lemon dessert contains only three ingredients (heavy whipping cream, sugar and lemon juice), and cooks up in minutes.

As a food columnist with a penchant for baking, I thought I’d encountered every dessert under the sun. However, a recent visit from Tommy Newell, a family friend and rising senior at George Washington ...