Home made bread/cake query

MimiJane

A few more ingredients in this one, but tastes gorgeous.:) (Taken from a Hay Diet recipe book) :

4oz melted butter
4oz clear honey
2 egg yolks
2 tbsp whipping cream (or equivalent)
5 tbsp water
grated rind of 1 lemon
4oz coarsely chopped blanched almonds
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tbsp baking powder
12oz wholemeal flour
12oz sweet apples or pears, peeled, cored and
thinly sliced/chopped
Butter for greasing tray

Mix melted butter smoothly with the honey, egg yolks, cream and water. Add lemon rind, almonds, salt, vanilla and cinnamon. Stir well to mix.

Combine the baking powder and wholemeal flour. Gradually add to melted butter mixture. Stir until well blended. Stand for 15 mins. Preheat oven to 160 C/325 F/gas mark 3.

Stir prepared apples into cake mixture. Grease 2lb loaf tin with butter. Fill evenly with cake mixture and bake until well risen and golden (about 1 hour, 10 mins.) Turn out while still warm and cool completely.


The first time I made this, I found it needed to be a little sweeter for me, so I added a couple of ounces of sugar with the flour.

Glad

in answer to the original query I always cover the top of the tin with a double layer of greaseproof paper with a hole cut in the middle, as paul says leave enough room for the cake to rise

Curry_Queen

I'm supposed to be starting a diet!!!!!!! :eek:



All these yummy recipes are farrrrrr too tempting

MimiJane

Curry_Queen wrote:

I'm supposed to be starting a diet!!!!!!! :eek:



All these yummy recipes are farrrrrr too tempting

Well, mine was taken from the "Hay Diet" recipe book.

chrisico

Wartime Boiled Fruit Cake

From the days when we were very poor and vegan!

1/2 pint tea
3oz marg
3oz sugar
3oz mixed fruit

Melt together and cool then add
10oz plain flour
3tsp baking powder
1tsp mixed spice
1tsp bicarb soda
all seived toether

pour into cake tin and cook for 11/2 hours at 180c cool in tin for 5 minutes and turn onto rack,
Even though we are no longer vegan this is still our favourite cake recipe.

MATH

I'm so pleased to read this thread. My late grandmother had a recipe for boiled fruit loaf (we always called in bun loaf) which I used to make all the time but I've since lost the recipe, you know how it is, a scrap of paper stuck in the leaf of a book!:( I will adopt one of the above in memory of absent friends.

Tanya_3

Jolaaled wrote:

wow...and vegan as well...it's hard to find vegan cake recipes that someone's already tried but got great results!!

Hiya! I have some awesome vegan cake recipes - tried, tested and loved by many! If you read this, please do ask me for them.

Jolaaled

Tanya wrote:

Hiya! I have some awesome vegan cake recipes - tried, tested and loved by many! If you read this, please do ask me for them.

Tanya...yes please..i'm really stuck with making vegan cakes, as all my recipes use eggs or milk. Any help very much appreciated.Ta!

Murtle

I would love some vegan cake receipes too please...maybe we could/have started a new thread for them???!!!

Lychee

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how long fresh yeast will stay fresh? I've read that I can get free fresh yeast from supermarkets but I'm wondering if I'd have to use it the same day I get it?

Thanks!