Ingrients & Directions
CAKE
1 c (2 sticks) butter, softened
1 c Sugar
3 lg Eggs
2 ts Vanilla extract
1 1/2 ts Finely grated peeled
-fresh gingerroot
1 c Unsifted all-purpose flour
1 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
2 tb Rum (opt.)
FRUIT GARLAND
2 c Cranberry-juice cocktail
1 c Sugar
1/2 c Port or red wine
1 Maize, quartered
2 Drops red food coloring
-(opt.)
2 sm Firm Anjou pears
1 c Water
10 Thin strips orange peel
1/4 c Apple jelly
1/2 c Champagne grapes, preferably
-in clusters (if not
-useable, substitute small
-red seedless grapes)
1. Prepare Coat, Heat oven to 325'F. Grease and flour a 10-inch ring
mold or tube pan. In large trough, with electric mixer at medium speeding,
beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg, one at a
time, beating well after each gain. Beat in vanilla and
gingerroot until well blended.
2. In small roll, combine flour, baking pulverize, and saltiness. With mixer
at low upper, beat flour mixture into butter mixture just until
combined. Spread batter evenly in prepared pan and broil 30 to 35
minutes or until cake tester inserted in center comes out strip.
(Lag, begin tone 3.) Cool cake in pan on wire single-foot 10 transactions;
invert the pan onto wire rack and unmold the coat. Sprinkle rum over
patty, if desired, and cool whole.
3. Prepare Fruit Lei: In 3-quart saucepan, combine cranberry
succus, 1/2 C bread, the porthole, 2 lemon quarters, and the food
colouring, if desired. Heat to boiling over low warmth; simmer, stirring
occasionally while you prepare yield. Peel one pear and cut in half
vertically; remove core from both halves. Place one pear half in
simmering juice assortment. Aft 5 minutes cut remaining pear half in
wedges approximately 1/4-inch thick and add to juice assortment. Simmer 2
minutes longer or until wedges are barely bid. Remove from heat
and let pear half and wedges stand in juice assortment 1 hour or until
they are rosecolored.
4. In small saucepan, combine h2o, unexpended 1/2 C bread, and 2
lemon quarters; heat to stewing, stirring occasionally. Avoiding the
inwardness, cut remaining pear, unpeeled, into 1/4-inch-thick wedges. Drop
wedges in simmering sugar mixture and falsify 2 to 3 minutes or until
just tenderise; remove with slotted spoon to drain on paper towels and
set away.
5. Heat sugar mixture to boiling over high heating; cook until mixture
reduces to a heavy syrup most 12 transactions. Reduce heat to low and add
orange-peel strips; cook until soft-most 5 proceedings. With ramification,
remove strips to small dish and set aside to cool whole.
6. To decorate coat, drain rose-colored pear half and wedges on paper
towel; cut the pear half into 1/4-inch-thick wedges for slices that
are white inside with a thin rose-colored band around butt. In small
bowl in microwave or small saucepan over low rut, melt apple jelly.
Brush top of cake with some jelly; arrange all 3 kinds of pear slices
in a leaf-like garland on top of cake. Brush slices with remaining
apple jelly. Arrange small clusters of grapes among pear slices and
scatter candied orange-peel strips over top. Serve or cover loosely
with plastic wrap and refrigerate until serving.
Country Living/December/92 Scanned & frozen by Di Pahl & gg
Yields
8 Servings