Name: Jugu Cake
Ingredients: ½ cup sunflower oil; 2 cups sugar; 4 tsp baking powder; 2 cups groundnuts with the skins on, roasted for five to seven minutes in the oven – 325°F, 170°C, gas mark 3 – until they release their aroma and change colour slightly; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 5 cups plain white flour; 2 eggs; ½ cup milk

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Settler's Cookbook

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published 2009

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Ingredients

2 cups groundnuts with the skins on, roasted for five to seven minutes in the oven – 325°F, 170°C, gas mark 3 – until they release their aroma and change colour slightly
1 tsp vanilla

Method

Grind the groundnuts to small-chunk size – some will turn to powder, it doesn’t matter at all.
Mix the dry ingredients, then bind with oil, milk and egg.
Grease and flour a flattish baking tin, and press dough flat into it.
Score into the mixture, quite deep, making squares or diamond shapes.
Bake at 350°F, 180°C, gas mark 4 for an ho

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