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Pear And Ginger Cake

Autumn has arrived at last, and with it the Autumn harvest. Though the tomatoes have slowed down a little, the pears and apples in the orchard are ripe for picking, so there is no let up on the cooking and preserving going on in the farmhouse kitchen. The Easter long weekend proved the perfect opportunity to catch up on some work in the kitchen.

Pear And Ginger Cake

We made jars of pasatta (Italian tomato puree), and caramelised about 10kg of onions (you can find the recipe here), and on Sunday afternoon I poached some pears and made this pear and ginger cake for an afternoon treat. Perfect while relaxing and enjoying a little crochet!

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Pear And Ginger Cake
 
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Prep time
10 mins
Cook time
1 hour 10 mins
Total time
1 hour 20 mins
 
Author: Jo @ Country Life Experiment
Ingredients
  • 2 pears
  • 1c sugar
  • 3c (750ml) water
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 1 cinnamon quill
  • 1½ c SR flour
  • 1 c brown sugar
  • 1½ T ground ginger
  • 1t ground cinnamon
  • 150g butter
  • 3 eggs - lightly beaten
  • ¼ c (60ml) milk
Method
  1. In a sauce pan place the sugar, water, scraped vanilla pod, and cinnamon quill.
  2. Bring to the simmer.
  3. Peel the pears and place in the syrup. Simmer for 15 minutes.
  4. Allow the pears to cool.
  5. Remove the pears and allow to drain.
  6. Preheat the oven to 180*c.
  7. Place the flour, sugar, ginger, and cinnamon in a bowl, and stir to combine.
  8. Place the butter into a microwave proof jug and melt in the microwave (approx 1 minute).
  9. Pour the butter, eggs, and milk into the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
  10. Pour the batter into a greased and lined 22 cm cake tin.
  11. Cut the pears in half and remove the core.
  12. Thinly slice the pear.
  13. Arrange the pear on top of the cake.
  14. Bake for 55 minutes.
Notes
I popped a couple of extra pears into the syrup to poach. That way I had a few spare for dessert - yummy!
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What did you get up to this long weekend? Got any good pear recipes?

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  1. Fi says

    April 6, 2016 at 5:09 pm

    I’m assuming that the Brown sugar is combined with the sr flour? Thanks
    .

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    • Jo@CountryLifeExperiment says

      April 6, 2016 at 5:12 pm

      Yep will fix up the instructions to make it clearer

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      • Fi says

        April 6, 2016 at 5:28 pm

        I appreciate your help and recipe!

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    • Fi says

      April 6, 2016 at 5:20 pm

      Also, what do you do with the syrup? Pour over the cake, into the batter or discard? Thanks again.

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      • Jo@CountryLifeExperiment says

        April 6, 2016 at 5:29 pm

        Discard (or use for something else)

        Reply
  2. Ranch and Farm Lands says

    March 31, 2016 at 1:53 pm

    I just had to copy your Pear and Ginger cake recipe! Sounds so good!

    Reply
  3. Sarah @ Say Little Hen says

    March 29, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    I love the sound of your Autumn happenings Jo! And yum to the pear cake – I love ginger flavoured food x

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