Woman finds enormous nine inch lemon that dwarves her baby’s head

A bakery owner has gone on a citrus cooking spree after discovering a nine-inch lemon that weighs almost 1.8kg.

Tammy Warren spotted the yellow whopper – the biggest she has ‘ever seen’ – in Wiltshire last week and believes the fruit, which dwarves her baby’s head, is roughly 17 times the size of a standard lemon.

And when life gave her an enormous lemon, Tammy made a concoction of baking and cocktail treats.

The mum-of-three bought the fruit for £5 and set about creating a lemon and blueberry cake, lemon cupcakes, lemon cake pops and a lemon drizzle loaf.

Tammy, 38, then turned her hand to lemon syrup, lemon marmalade, fresh lemonade, lemon curd, candied lemon peel and frozen lemon segments for ‘lots of gin and tonics’.

There was still leftover flesh and zest, from which she made a lemon chicken dinner, before keeping the pips to plant.

Explaining that she initially spotted the mutant lemon at a fruit and veg stall at Lackham Farm, Chippenham, on Saturday, March 19, Tammy, from nearby Colerne, said: ‘It’s the biggest lemon I’ve ever seen in my life, I thought it would make a great cake.

‘It’s bigger than [my baby] Sebastian’s head.

‘In this case when life gives you lemons I made cakes, candied lemon peel, lemonade and will enjoy lots of gin and tonics.’

Having done a double-take after spotting the fruit, she then went on a two-and-a-half hour baking spree last Wednesday, March 23.

‘It’s been fun making all these different things with the lemon, I’ve loved it’, she said.

‘We’re going to keep the seeds and grow our own.’