Name: Pineapple with spiced bread
Yield: Serves 8-10
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon ground allspice; 50 g flaked almonds; 1½ tablespoons baking powder; 225 g plain flour; 75 g unsalted butter; 50 g raisins, chopped; grated zest of 1 lemon; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; grated zest of 1 orange; 125 g light soft brown sugar; 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; ¼ teaspoon ground cloves; Vanilla ice-cream for serving; 1 large, perfectly ripe, sweet pineapple; 250 g clear honey, such as acacia

Preparation info

Serves
8-10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Richard Corrigan Cookbook

By Richard Corrigan

Published 1999

About

You could serve this to four people, using a small pineapple, which will mean you will have more spiced bread than you need. But that is no hardship — it is delicious plain with a cup of tea or coffee, or you can use it to make the spiced bread ice-cream.