For the celebrations a couple of weekends ago Liz and I made a delicious cake that was gluten free. We combined Nigella Lawson's Clementine Cake recipe with the syrup from Nigel Slater's Citrus Polenta Cake recipe.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/clementine-cake-recipe/index.html. I used a mix of oranges and lemons, increasing the sugar quantity as Nigella suggests.
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Then Liz made the syrup:
large juicy lemon
large orange
100gr golden caster sugar
2 tblsp liquer (limoncello, cointreau etc..)
Finely grate the zest from the lemon and orange over a measuring jug. Cut fruits in half and squeeze juice into the jug. Top up to 250ml (1 cup) with cold water. Pour into saucepan and add sugar. Bring to the boil and keep at a rapid bubble until the sugar has dissolved and the liquid has reduced to about 175ml (3/4 of its original volume). Remove from heat and add liquer.
Spike holes in the cake while it is still warm and pour the syrup over.
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Enjoy
As you can see, it didn't last long with us!
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Many thanks, but since we're topsy-turvy, I'll have to try this in 6 months.
Pretty much the recipe my late german Grandma used to do. Propz Pilgrim
I do a cake similar to this, using lemonade fruit. It is a flourless cake using almond meal instead. In the syrup I thinly cut some slices of the lemonade, cook it in the syrup. After the cake comes from the oven, remove the slices and brush the cake generously with syrup, (pour remaining syrup into a jug to serve over the slice of cake)then place The slices of fruit then around the edges of the cake to decorate. With a large dollop of fresh cream !!!
I'm on my way to the kitchen, think I feel like baking a cake :-D
The older I get I seem to suffer with eating wheat. This cake sounds absolutely gorgeous :)
Dear Friends that have commented,
Liz and Mickle planned this cake after Dear Mum told me of the cake she was making for their Golden Wedding "do"...
Mickle told Mum that both daughters loathed that cake, and a cousin wouldn't be able to eat it...
.... and Mum made her Pineapple Fruitcak anyway. For any who love fruitcake with a tropical twist it is great.BUT:
For Liz and Mickle: strongly we confess that we LOATHE it, yes with the capital letters. We got it day after day in our packed school lunches for years. Cringe - I even used to make it (shudder)
these days - besides Liz and Mickle still loathing it:
Mickle's innards = has to avoid fruit cake (and trad English style Xmas Pudding)
Liz's Pete can't eat pineapple in any shape of cooked form
Dear Cousin Beth has to avoid Gluten in any way.
Mickle, on behalf of us did tell dear Mum, many times.....
So Mum made hers......
And We made this - - - and then completely forgot to give Beth a piece to take home.
K.B - check out the recipe and syrup I posted, and Olive's version. Lemonades are kind of sweet lemons. Go back to Nigella's recipe. Nigel's would be great for you too - ground almonds and polenta. CAn get the rst of Nigel's recipe - please email me for it.
okay - liquer is optional...
Best of all - Dear Friends - you can make it all at least a day earlier, including dousing with the syrup (cover to hide from ants etc) so can appear relaxed, gorgeous and a brilliant cook on the "day" too
And if you absolutely bloody must - I will send you the pineapple fruit cske recipe - you'll need to contact me via my email address ...
because there is no bloody way I'll post it on my blog
OMG!
It looks just fabulous. I can hardly wait to give it a try. (since you didn't save me a piece)
This looks delicious. Did Zebbycat get any? He says he needs a tummy top before his next nap...
My daughter has to eat gluten free as she has the coeliac condition.
Do you have this?
Hi Maggie,
No, I have Crohn's disease and have had most of my large intestine removed. The surgeon stitched the end of my small intestine to what is left. High fibre is my enemy
However cousin Beth is a coeliac, so I made sure there was plenty at the Do that she could eat.
And I love this cake recipe, even more with the syrup recipe Liz found - yummo!
It looks absolutely delish. Next time - save some for me!
Read back and I like your family resemblance posts. Twin uncles? Oh my!
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