Herefordshire Food Links first Summer Fruit Fair
Herefordshire Food Links will host it's first SUMMER FRUIT FAIR, to be held in High Town, Hereford, on Saturday 9th August 2008. This event will celebrate the wonderful fruit produced and processed in so many different ways within the county. Expect to find cider, preserves, cakes, pattisserie, wine, fruit and much more.
COURGETTE & LIME CAKE
This cake is a great way of using the courgette glut that always seems to happen every year!! If using golden courgettes, you will get a better colour if you use all white sugar, golden raisins and lemon juice. You can, of course substitute carrots for courgettes, but it works well with beetroot or parsnip too.
300g self raising flour 150g muscavado sugar
150g castor sugar 3 tsp mixed spice
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 3 eggs
225 ml veg oil zest of 1 lime
300g grated courgette 165g sultanas or raisins
75g desiccated coconut 35g chopped walnuts
syrup: juice of 2 limes & 75g muscavado sugar
icing: 300g curd cheese, juice of 1 lime, 50g icing sugar & 2 tsp mixed spice
1> heat oven to 170 degrees
2> grease 2 x 20cm cake tins
3> whisk eggs, sugar & oil together, then fold in flour, baking powder & bicarb, then gently add the rest of the cake ingredients
4> divide the mixture between the two tins & bake for 30 mins
5> meanwhile make the syrup by gently heating the lime juice and sugar together until thickened
6> prick cakes and pour syrup over as soon as they leave the oven
7> make the icing by beating all ingredients together and when the cake is completely cold, use half to sandwich cake together and the rest to ice the top.
The Herefordshire Food Links network is co-ordinated by the Bulmer Foundation and is part-financed by the European Union (EAGGF) and DEFRA through the Herefordshire Rivers LEADER+ programme.
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