Country Rhubarb Cake

Preparation info
  • serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Darina Allen's Simply Delicious Suppers

By Darina Allen

Published 2001

  • About

This delicious rhubarb cake made from an enriched bread dough used to be made all over Ireland. Originally it would have been baked in a bastible or baker beside an open fire. My mother, who taught me this recipe, used to vary the filling with the seasons – from rhubarb to gooseberries, to damsons, blackberries and apples.

Ingredients

  • 340 g flour
  • 55 g caster sugar
  • a pinch

Method

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

Sieve into a bowl the flour, caster sugar, salt and bread soda; rub in the butter. Whisk the egg and mix with the buttermilk. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients. Pour in most of the liquid and mix to a soft but not sticky dou