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Cherry Cake

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CHERRY CAKE

Now that the cherries are ripe, it’s a race to get them before the birds finish them off and I’ve been trying out new recipes to use them up. 

Cherry Cake

INGREDIENTS

  • 225g butter, softened
  • 225g white sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 225g self-raising flour
  • 350g cherries, stoned
  • icing sugar

METHOD

  1. Pre-heat oven to 180ºC.
  2. Line a 23cm square tin.
  3. Beat the butter and sugar together.
  4. Beat in the eggs.
  5. Gradually mix in the flour.
  6. Fold in the cherries.
  7. Put in the cake tin and bake for 60 minutes.
  8. Sprinkle the top with icing sugar.

 

Cherry Jam with Powdered Pectin

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CHERRY JAM

I try to use the least amount of sugar for jam-making but it will always depend on the sweetness of the fruit. Sorry about the mixed up measurements, but I liked the simplicity of whole numbers in different systems. 

Cherry Jam

INGREDIENTS

  • 8lb cherries
  • 17 tablespoons powdered pectin
  • 2kg sugar

METHOD

  1. Roughly pulse the cherries in a food processor.
  2. Transfer to a large preserving pan.
  3. Sprinkle over the pectin and mix thoroughly.
  4. Bring to the boil.
  5. Add in the sugar and stir well.
  6. Bring the jam to a rolling boil and boil for 1 minutes (this takes quite a bit of time).
  7. Skim the scum off the surface with a  slotted spoon.
  8. Pour into jars.
  9. Cook the jars in a water bath for 15 minutes.