Christmas Recipes: Cakes & Tarts. Nos. 4 of 7 - Date & Ginger Cake

Christmas recipe makes: 16 slices
calories per serving: 210
preparation time: 20 minutes
cooking time: 60 minutes
suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

oil
dates, stoned 125 g (4 oz)
stem ginger, in syrup 50 g (2 oz)
bicarbonate of soda, 2.5 ml (half tsp)
milk, 50 ml (2 fl oz)
butter, 125 g (4 oz)
sugar, soft brown 125 g (4 oz)
eggs, 2
syrup, golden 150 g (5 oz)
treacle, black 150 g (5 oz)
flour, plain 225 g (8 oz)
ginger, ground 7.5 ml (1.5 tsp)
salt


Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Take a square 9 inch cake tin, grease and line with non-stick
baking paper. Mix the bicarbonate of soda with the milk and chop the
stem ginger and dates into rough pieces.

2. Blend together the sugar and butter, then add the beaten eggs. Stir
in the stem ginger, dates, milk, treacle and syrup.

3. Blend in a pinch of salt the ground ginger and the sifted flour.
Place intoi the cake toin and bale at gas mark 2 (150 degrees
centigrade, 300 F) for about 60 minutes. Another test is to put a
skewer into the mixture and it should come out clean. After baking
leave the cake in the tin for 1 hour, then remove fron the tin and
place on a wire rack.

4. Wrap in greaseproof paper when cool.

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