Orange cake ???

tanith

Sounds like an odd recipe to me.. if you remove the peel the orange will fall apart if you cook for an hour... sorry thats not much help..

Nargleblast

There is a recipe on the same sort of theme for a Sussex Pond Pudding. You line a pudding basin with suet pastry, put a whole lemon inside (having pricked the skin a few times) then add chopped bits of butter and I think brown sugar? around the lemon before putting a suet lid over it. You then cover and steam it, and when it is done the lemon will have broken down with the butter and sugar to make a lovely lemony sauce which spills out like a pond when you cut into it, hence the pudding's name. I have never tried making this but it sounds very nice. So the idea of leaving the orange's peel on does make sense to me.

tanith

JayJay14 wrote: »

It means leave the skin on. The cooking and processing of the whole orange will mean all the flavour of the zest will be in the cake - it will be yum.

That does make sense but what about the bitter pith which will then be chopped into the cake?

Melonade

tanith wrote: »

That does make sense but what about the bitter pith which will then be chopped into the cake?

Thats what I was thinking. I suppose some of the boiling might take the bitterness away and hopefully the sugar will add sweetness back... hopefully

catch_me_if_you_can

nom nom sounds delicious!

rachbc

Yep whole orange means skin and all - and yes the boiling stops it being bitter - have faith it will be lovely honestly

rosysparkle

Nigella's clementine cake is made like this, and it's easy to chop the boiled fruit with a stick blender (peel and all). It won't be bitter.

starjumper

We've made this cake and it really is stunning. The whole book is great too, really recommend it, OH makes fantastic cakes (try the sticky marmalade from that book mmmmmmm). I can't bake cakes for toffee so it's best left to him. Fancy that orange cake now, thanks.

Melonade

starjumper wrote: »

We've made this cake and it really is stunning. The whole book is great too, really recommend it, OH makes fantastic cakes (try the sticky marmalade from that book mmmmmmm). I can't bake cakes for toffee so it's best left to him. Fancy that orange cake now, thanks.

Cool, nice to hear that it's a nice cake. Although I'm pretty pants with cakes so who knows!! It's just done actually, gonna let it cool for a bit (done 15 minutes before time ... I'm not having any so no problems with food poisoning myself) OH is getting pretty excited, he loves cake

I'll try the marmalade cake, looke really yummy

starjumper

It's really moist and feels quite Spanish, let us know what you think.