Country Pear and Almond Cake

I thought I might give you another nice recipe to try,

I hope you enjoyed the lemon and almond cake

from last week.

This one makes a lovely desert served with cream,yoghurt or ice cream

I'm going to try this on my next lunch party with friends.

Country Pear and Almond Cake

Oven temp 180c

2 eggs beaten together with 200grms Caster sugar (white granulated will do)

Caster sugar is similar but finer

4 Tblspns milk folded in alternately with 200grms  Self Raising flour

Grease and line a round cake pan

Sprinkle bottom with 30grms dried breadcrumbs

Pour half the batter into the tin

peel and slice 2 pears and put on top of the mixture in the tin

Pour on the other half of the batter

Dot with 30grms butter and sprinkle with 60grms flaked almonds

Bake for 30-40mins or until set and cooked 

Allow to cool 10 mins in the tin before inverting onto a plate then back the right way onto another plate then slide onto a cooling rack

Delicious warm with yoghurt.

While in the kitchen I always fill the oven to save gas,so my 

usual crispy shortbread biscuits go in the oven at the same time

Then a batch of scones while the bread dough is rising in the warm

kitchen

and to use up a bit of left over sweet shortcrust pastry I had in the 

freezer from last baking day,I used up one last apple in the fruit bowl

which I peeled,cored while still whole,stuffed the hole with mixed

dried fruit and soft brown sugar dotting a little fresh butter

over the apple

sit it on top of the circle of pastry, brush with beaten egg

and fold up the pastry to encase the apple

brush all over with the beaten egg and sprinkle with caster sugar

Bake in the oven at the same time as the scones

Delicious served with custard

It is plenty for 2 people

What to do with the left over egg (I hardly ever waste food)

I stirred it into a bubbling pot of veg and lentil soup

Sour Bread dough ready to be kneaded

I don't worry about the kitchen getting messy when I'm enjoying

myself cooking. There usually is stuff everywhere,even bits on the floor.

Time to clean up and have a nice cup of tea

I think I'll use the pink roses china set today and 

enjoy a nice scone with fresh butter

Enjoy

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xx jeanetteann