The oranges I picked up well before quarantine are still rolling about in my fruit bowl, as D has failied in his duty as orange juice crusher. They are still super juicy and tasty, so can be eaten naturaly, but I find that I am left to be creative with them. Regular readers will know that I have already I made Orange Ginger Apple Loaf Cake early this April.
Today I have this Orange and Cumin Madeira Cake to share; and tomorrow I have a Orange Carrot Soup for you.
This recipe for Cumin and Orange Maderia Loaf comes from a cookbook called Spice Trip by Stevie Pearle and Emma Grazette. I had not heard of either of these chefs before, until I bought the cookbook from Oxfam second hand bookshop about 6 years ago. And although many of the recipes are meat based, there is lots of good stuff to read around medicinal use of spices.
For those of you who want the recipe, well its essentially a Orange and Caraway cake with cumin instead. It was wonderfully buttery.
I hope your all keeping well and are finding things to keep you occupied, by the way let me know what you have been baking?
Orange and spice sounds a good combination
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ReplyDeleteI hope you and your family are doing well...your cake looks pretty and that sounds like an interesting flavor combination...
~Have a lovely day!
Thank you so much. Yes we are all good. Hope your family is keeping well too.
DeleteOrange and cumin? I must try that! So nice to try new amalgams of flavours!
ReplyDeleteThank you. it was a good cake.
DeleteOrange and cumin is a new idea to me but I can see it might make sense - we bought 3 kg of oranges a few weeks back and got through them last week (It is silly that you can only buy American oranges loose but not Australian ones which come in a plastic bag! A choice between local food and the environment!) But I will buy more - am trying to go easy on the baking but we had Anzac biscuits this week (of course as today is Anzac Day)
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely Johanna, it is silly and it does not make sense when you are in Austalia not able to buy oranges grown there loose - does not make sense. I find myself baking once a week at the moment, not because i want cake but Because D does. I will come on over and check out your Anzac Day biscuits.
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