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Clementine Cake

by Marion Farmer. Categories: Recipes .

This is an adaptation of a Marguerite Patten recipe dated 1963. As adapted by She-who-shall-be-ignored, with additional chutney technique.

Ingredients

Cake

  • 7oz self raising flour
  • 1/4tsp Baking powder
  • 5oz margarine or butter
  • 4oz golden granulated sugar
  • 3 medium eggs
  • 3 clementines, chopped up into small pieces and any pips removed

Icing

  • 3oz Icing sugar
  • 2oz margarine or butter

Method

  1. Put the sugar and the chopped clementines in a small saucepan on a gentle heat. stir occasionally until you have a thick marmalade.
  2. Turn on the oven, about 175 degrees.
  3. Meanwhile, sieve the flour on to a plate with the baking powder, beat the eggs in a bowl, and weigh out the margarine.
  4. Zizz up the marmalade with a blender until the peel is incorporated. Keep some back for the icing.
  5. Beat the margarine and most of the blended marmalade together with a little flour in a mixing bowl.
  6. Add about a dessert spoonful of flour, and about half an egg’s worth of whipped egg mixture to the mixing bowl, Then add another dessert spoonful of flour and mix it up.
  7. Keep doing this until you have incorporated all the whipped egg.
  8. Add about half the remaining flour to the mixing bowl, and incorporate gently with a spoon.
  9. Repeat with the rest of the flour.
  10. Divide the mixture between two sandwich tins and place in oven for about 30 minutes until done.
  11. Meanwhile, Put the sieved icing sugar, margarine and left over blended marmalade in to a bowl and incorporate with a fork.
  12. When the cake halves have cooled down, spread the icing on the bottom half, stick the top half on top, dust over a smidgeon of icing sugar and enjoy with a nice cup of tea.


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