Individual Summer Berry Puddings

Name: Individual Summer Berry Puddings
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 2 pints, fresh strawberries rinsed, hulled, and sliced; 1 pint, fresh raspberries; 1/2 pint, fresh blueberries; 1/2 pint, fresh blackberries; 3/4 cup, granulated sugar; 2 tablespoons, lemon juice from 1 lemon; 12 slices, potato bread (stale), challah, or other good-quality white bread (see note)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 1999, America's Test Kitchen TV

The ideal summer pudding, a simple marriage of berries and bread, is all in the details.

SERVES 6

TIME 35 minutes, plus 20 minutes cooling and 8 hours chilling

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