Pineapple with spiced bread

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

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.

Ingredients

1 large, perfectly ripe, sweet pineapple
Vanilla ice-cream for serving

Dessert
Bread
Vegetarian
Spring

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4.

For the spiced bread, put the honey, sugar and butter in a saucepan and add 200 ml water. Bring to the boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. W