The perfect recipe for the weather we've been having lately: the cake you can leave out in the rain*
Ideal for round-the-world yachtspeople; goes lovely with a mug of tea.
Ingredients
4 oz butterBeat the sugar with the butter, mix in the eggs and treacle, sift in the flour and ginger and add the preserved ginger; warm the milk, add the bicarb to it and stir into the mixture.
4 oz Muscovado sugar
2 eggs
10 oz molasses
8 oz flour
1 tsp ginger
4 oz preserved ginger
2 tbsp milk
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Pour the mix into a lined, greased 7" cake tin, and bake at mark 3, 160° for 1½ hours. Remove from the oven, and leave it out in the rain for 24 hours, or as long as you feel like.
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*especially if you put it in a Tupperware box.
this is definitely parkin weather. Try using a proportion of fine oatmeal instead of some of the flour- it improves the taste and the keeping qualities (if you can hide it!!)
ReplyDeletea good suggestion, Gwynneth! - I used to make great lumps of flapjack, baked into billycans, for expeditioning food, and threw anything that looked interesting and/or high energy into it. Toasted sesame seeds went well. Maybe I'll try that again...
ReplyDeleteI do 'get' the clever reference to Richard Harris' late 1968 hit MacArthur Park! I loved that song, even though many have thought it tedious and pretentious. I once found a book that rated it one of the ten worse songs ever produced! How misguided.
ReplyDeleteYou haven't described how to make the sweet green icing.
Lucy
just use green ginger, Lucy!
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