Date, orange and walnut cake

Name: Date, orange and walnut cake
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 500 g self-raising flour; ½ tsp salt; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; ½ tsp ground cloves; Zest and juice of 2 unwaxed marmalade oranges; 2 eggs; 175 g walnut pieces; 500 g dates, stoned; 50 g golden caster sugar; 50 g unsalted butter, softened

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Cook’s Year in a Welsh Farmhouse

By Elisabeth Luard

Published 2011

About

Make this spicy cut-and-come-again cake with bitter Seville oranges, as used for marmalade: these are the ancestors of all our citrus cultivars. You’ll find them in season and in the shops from mid-January to the end of February.

Ingredients

500 g self-raising flour
½ tsp salt
1 tsp

January
February
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.

Butter a large loaf tin and line with buttered greaseproof paper.

Sift the flour into a roomy bowl with the salt and spices, then mix in the dates and walnuts. Beat the butter with the sugar till pale and fluffy. Crack an egg