Almond And Lemon Syrup Cake With Violets Or Heartsease

Almond And Lemon Syrup Cake With Violets Or Heartsease



Ingrients & Directions


45 g Slightly stale breadcrumbs;
-(1 1/2oz)
200 g Caster cabbage; (7oz)
100 g Ground tonsils; (3 1/2oz)
200 ml Oil; (7fl oz)
4 Eggs
Finely grated lemon zest
1 1/2 ts Baking pulverise


FOR THE SYRUP
1 sm Maize; Juice of
85 g Boodle; (3oz)
100 ml Weewee; (3 1/2fl oz)
8 Fresh spikes of lavender
-flowers or 6; or 1 1/2tbsp
; dried spikes, rosewater
1 Cinnamon stick
Violets; peacefulness, or
; garder pansies


Line the base of a 20cm (8 edge) cake tin with non-stick baking
parchment and grease the sides. Mix the breadcrumbs with the clams,
almonds and baking pulverisation. Add the oil and eggs and beat wellspring. Stir
in the lemon nip. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin. Put
into a cold oven and set the heat to 190C/375F/gas scratch 5. Bake for
40-50 minutes until the cake is a rich brown and a skewer inserted
into the centre comes out cleanse. Cool for 5 minutes in the tin then
turn out onto a plateful.


Make the syrup while the cake is preparation. Put all ingredients into a
pan, and bring gently to the moil, stirring until the sugar has
dissolved all. Simmer for 3 mintues. Remove the lavender
flowers and cinnamon if you bid. Pierce holes in the cake with a
skewer while it is still warm and pour over the syrup. Leave to chill,
spooning excess syrup back over every now and then until it is all
soaked up. Serve with creme fraiche, whipped cream or mascarpone and
possibly some sliced fresh fruit on the face.



Yields
8 servings