Heirloom Meals: Savoring Yesterday's Traditions Today

Alchie Cake

Cake Ingredients

  • 1 lb flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 lb butter
  • 6 well beaten Eggs
  • 1 lb cherries
  • 1 lb dates
  • 1 lb mixed raisins/currants
  • Spices to taste nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon
  • 1 bottle port
  • 1 bottle rum
  • 1/2 lb breadcrumbs

Sauce Ingredients

  • 1/2 lb butter
  • 1/2 lb sugar

For cake Directions

  1. Use electric mixer to mix flour, baking poweder, salt, and butter.
  2. Then add 6 eggs.
  3. After mixing put fruit, spices, port, and rum on top.
  4. Stir heartily and then add breadcrumbs (this makes mixture more cake-like).
  5. Pour into buttered pan and bake around 70 degrees for a few hours.
  6. Watch closely so it doesn't overcook.

For sauce Directions

  1. Simply use mixer to blend butter and sugar

Alternatives Directions

  1. For a healtheir, gluten-free nutritionaist version, use gluten-free flour and breadcrumbs, and unrefined sugar such as rapadurra. Substitute goji berries for raisins. And of course high quality rum and port!
  • Prep time: 30 minutes
  • Cook time: 2-3 hours
  • Total time: 3+ hours

Yield: 10-12 servings


Categories: Heirloom Recipes, Special Diets

Tags: dessert, gluten-free, Heirloom Meals Radio