If you are a lover of cakes and ginger, this is exactly what you are looking for.
Now, I have eaten ginger cake before. Boring stuff off the supermarket shelves. The first time I ate ginger cake of this sort was when our good friend Edna baked this for us one lazy morning in Germany. By the time we were bathed and dressed, the cake was cooling on the rack. Hot fresh cakes for breakfast was a concept I had only read in books. Thanks for this, Edna.
The recipe goes like this (You could halve this recipe)
200 gms Plain Flour
200 gms Butter
1 tsp Baking Powder
150 to 200 gms ginger in syrup (chopped)
ginger juice (1 to 2 tsp) (I didnt put in any)
200 gm Sugar
3 large eggs
Whisk the sugar and butter. Alternatively add an egg and flour and beat. Add the baking powder and ginger last and whisk.
Bake at 150 degree celcius for 50 mins.
Yenjoiii!!
Prologue
One day when I get famous and need fillers for my book, I might give this more thought ..... for now this will do.
I claim to be no expert at either travelling or cooking or the random things I write about...
But I would like to collate all my good memories (and efforts) into this space for reminiscing on those grey rainy days...
What Blog its more of a 'Brag'!!
My Thank You Speech..........
I was introduced to cooking in the early years of my life by my Aayi while I sat at the kitchen dining table while she mixed spices and vegetables to create those sumptuous dishes. My brain took in what I did not intend to learn.
My Aayi is a fantastic cook. Each day I woke up to a sit down breakfast of Idlis, Dosas, Upma, Dodak, Usli and the likes. A far cry compared to the ‘eat while you dress’ cereal we make do with these days. Any efforts Aayi made of training me in the kitchen went futile. It is hence ironic that Aayi, ‘my first teacher’ is still to taste anything cooked by my hand.
My hard core cooking days started only when I moved to UK with my husband a few years ago. My husband, like a true martyr, suffered through my numerous cooking expeditions. His encouragement, fulsome praise where due and frank critical review drives me to try something new each week. It is to these two people that I owe whatever little cooking I know or strive to know today.
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