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- From: dijcks@ims-tc.ce.philips.nl ("Stephanie v. Dijck")
- Subject: RECIPE: Buttermilk gigerbread
- Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 19:45:31 +0000
- Message-ID: <09221994201428um@alexr.demon.co.uk>
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- Buttermilk gingerbread
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- 1/4 liter buttermilk
- 250 gram self-raising flour
- 175 gram fine moist sugar (like brown sugar, but then white :)
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoon allspice
- 300 gram mixed raisins, nuts, chopped dried apricots,
- chopped candied ginger, candied orange/lemon peel (you can
- add a tablespoon of ginger syrup for even spicier taste)
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- Preheat oven to 180C (350 F).
- In a bowl, mix flour, sugar and allspice. Add egg and
- buttermilk, mix well with an electric mixer.
- Mix until the batter is creamy, with small air bubbles.
- Carefully fold in the raisin/nut/ginger/apricot/peel
- mixture. Don't stir too long!
- Put the batter in a (24 cm) rectangular cake dish
- (grease it first to make things easier after baking ;)
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- Bake for 1 hour until done (do the knitting-needle test!)
- and golden/dark brown.
- Take the cake from the dish, leave to cool for 10-15
- minutes. After that, wrap the cake in a plastic bag or
- in a piece of aluminium/aluminum foil and let cool
- completely.
- The last step is essential! If you leave the cake to
- cool 'in open air' it will get dry: it should be moist
- and sticky.
- Cut in thin slices; this recipe has 15 servings (!).
- Throw away the first and last piece if you don't like
- the tough texture.
- Great in winter with hot cocoa...
-
- Here in the Netherlands, we have two types of allspice.
- One is for making gingerbread as above, the other is for
- making 'speculaas'. I'm not really sure which one is for
- sale outside our country, but the main ingredient is
- cinnamon for both, so it shouldn't make too much of a
- difference.
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