Cilcain Show   

August Bank Holiday Monday

Home Section 2009

Judge: Norma Mollard, Buckley.

Steward: Mrs Audrey Cannon (tel. 740945)

Recipes

LADIES CAKE COMPETITION

Ladies Cake Competition - Decorated Ginger Cake - Price £10

150ml milk   100g self-raising flour

5ml bicarbonate of soda  100g wholemeal flour  

100g butter    5ml mixed spice

100g golden syrup  30ml ground ginger

100g treacle    salt

75g soft brown sugar  2 small eggs, beaten

15ml orange marmalade     

Preheat oven to 170oC/ 150oC fan/gas 3. Grease a 20cm round cake tin and line with greased greaseproof paper.  Pour the milk into a saucepan, add the bicarbonate of soda and heat gently until tepid.  Place the butter, syrup, treacle, sugar and marmalade in another saucepan and heat gently, stirring until the ingredients are combined and the sugar dissolved.

Place the flours, mixed spice, ginger and a pinch of salt in a bowl and mix together thoroughly. Stir in the treacle mixture, then the warmed milk and beat well to a smooth batter.  Beat in the eggs.

Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in warm oven for 1 hour or until a fine skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean.  Allow to cool in the tin for 10minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Remove greaseproof paper.

Decorate the top of the cake with white icing and crystallised ginger.

GENTLEMEN'S COMPETITION

Apple Pie (pastry top and bottom).

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