Fresh Plum Cake

[Rob]

Christopher James McNeill <mcne...@miamiu.muohio.com>
> im looking for good plum recipes. anything plum. if anyone knows
> recipes for this i would really appreciate any reply.

This recipe is from the Food Aid cookery book, published in 1986
in the spirit of the preceding Band Aid charity event a year earlier.
Perhaps in the same spirit users of this recipe might like to donate
a pound or two to an appropriate cause?

The recipe is credited to Elizabeth Sargut in Reading, England and
you will agree is rather wonderful!

Fresh Plum Cake

350g self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
175g margarine
75g + 2 tablespoons soft brown sugar
75g sultanas
450g fresh plums
6 tablespoons golden syrup
3 eggs

Pre-heat oven to 350F. You will need an 8-in round cake tin, greased and
lined. Sift the flour, salt and 1 teaspoon cinnamon into a large bowl.
Add the margarine in pieces and rub into the flour. Stir in 75g brown
sugar and the sultanas. Halve and stone the plums. Reserve ten halves and
finely chop the rest. Gently beat together the golden syrup and the eggs.
Add this to the dry ingredients and fold in the chopped plums. Spoon this
mixture into your cake tin, level the surface and arrange the plum halves
on top.

Mix together the remaining 2 tablespoons brown sugar and the cinnamon and
sprinkle over the top. Bake until done - about two hours. (It is done when
the top springs back under finger pressure.) Leave it to get cold before
turning out, wrap in foil and leave for at least a couple of days - up to
a week! - to mature.

Rob Dixon
Maidenhead, England

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