Lou Mias

Cornmeal Christmas Cake

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Table in Provence

By Leslie Forbes

Published 1987

  • About

This moist cornmeal cake would once have been made with goats’ milk and baked on a hot griddle in the fireplace. A modern oven gives more reliable results.

Ingredients

  • 8 fl oz/225 ml milk
  • 7 oz/200 g<

Method

Heat the milk to boiling, lower the heat and mix in sugar and peel, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and stir, little by little, into the cornmeal with a fork. Add salt and stir in orange juice. Leave in a warm place for ½ an hour. Beat in eggs one by one and add oil. Heat oven to 400°F/200°C/gas 6</