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  • Fig and orange porter cake

    This recipe is based on a traditional Irish cake that I've been making for several years and is a fabulous autumn/winter cake, lovely with cheese, and would make a lovely Christmas cake too if you wanted to up the fruit in the recipe. I made this variation at the weekend and thought it was pretty good too so I thought I'd share it with you

    Fig and Orange Porter Cake
    makes 1 x 8” cake (you’ll need a deep tin though)

    350g plain flour
    175g butter or margarine
    1 tsp mixed spice or cinnamon
    175g light brown sugar
    250g dried figs
    100g currants
    100g raisins
    zest of 1 orange
    50g glace cherries
    50g flaked almonds
    3 eggs
    150ml porter or stout
    ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

    Preheat the oven to 140degC.

    In a large bowl, mix the flour and spice together and rub in the fat. Mix in the sugar, fruit and nuts. Warm the porter/stout and dissolve the bicarb into it. Mix into the beaten eggs, and pour the mixture into the flour/fruit mixture. Mix together thoroughly, pour into your tin and level the top. Bake at 140degC for a hour, then turn the oven down to 120deg and bake for a further 2 hours or until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin and store for a day in an airtight tin before cutting.
    Last edited by Birdie Wife; 22-09-2009, 12:04 PM.

    Dwell simply ~ love richly

  • #2
    Thanks Birdie Wife sounds very nice, especially as I love porter!
    Also as the recipe only uses 150ml compared to the 500ml in the bottle, I guess that means I would have to finish the bottle! Waste not, want not
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    • #3
      That's the other reason why this is my favourite cake

      Dwell simply ~ love richly

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      • #4
        Thanks ! sounds like my kind of cake - must try it at the weekend.

        I was put off cakes for years as most were just sugar, fat and white flour.
        I'm now collecting recipes which are more nutritionally balanced - using less sugar and more fruit ( or squash, carrot or even beetroot ) together with more nuts and seeds and sometimes yoghurt.
        I am trying to avoid using margarine now so might try substituting with corn oil

        Bring back the cake!!

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