Quercyan Apple Cake

Name: Quercyan Apple Cake
Ingredients: ½ tsp baking powder; 2 eggs; 40g/1½oz butter, creamed; 1.5kg/3lb apples, peeled and thinly sliced; 450g/1lb plain flour; thinly pared rind of 1 lemon; 25g/1oz butter, melted; 1 egg, beaten; caster sugar; 225g/8oz sugar; 120ml/4fl oz rum; 85ml/3fl oz orange flower; water

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1998

About

Usually I keep my recipes very simple but this, though somewhat harder than usual, really repays the effort. Most of my stay in Quercy is either unremembered or censored, but the recipe remains.

Ingredients

450g/1lb plain flour
½ tsp baking powder

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Macerate the sliced apples with the filling ingredients overnight. Strain the apples, reserving the juice.

Sift the flour and baking powder into a large bowl, put butter and eggs into a well in the centre. Working with the fingertips gradually add 200ml/7</