{"id":36014,"date":"2018-10-01T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36014"},"modified":"2018-09-10T23:26:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T11:26:48","slug":"resuming-a-long-abandoned-quest-for-the-orange-cake-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/resuming-a-long-abandoned-quest-for-the-orange-cake-grail\/","title":{"rendered":"Resuming A Long Abandoned Quest for the Orange Cake Grail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first orange cake<\/p><\/div>\n

Lateish in 2015, I embarked on Quest For the Holy Grail—of orange cakes! “Which,” I pondered, “was the Best and Greatest?” The only way, I thought, was to make\/bake the recipes and find out…<\/p>\n

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Orange cake, the second…<\/p><\/div>\n

So in my mind, I had done a whole sequence of posts on this topic before being distracted by Other Life Matters, including the imminent release of Daughter Of Blood<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, as I recall. In the end, therefore, there were only ever two posts:<\/p>\n

The Quest For The Holy Grail<\/a>; and<\/em><\/p>\n

The Quest For The Holy Grail Continues<\/a><\/p>\n

However, the quest has remained ongoing, lurking somewhere in the background of both life and mind, and recently I made not one but two different orange cakes. (Although I kind of forgot the photo ritual with the second…)<\/p>\n

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Orange & Rosemary Syrup cake<\/p><\/div>\n

The common ingredient in both cakes—beside the orange of course \ud83d\ude09 —is rosemary. The first is Orange and Rosemary Syrup Cake<\/strong>, the recipe gleaned from an Australian Gourmet Traveller of October 2001. Definitely going back aways but the recipe is very good. It’s from a sequence called HeavenScent by Leanne Kitchen<\/a>. You can see some more of her food under her profile on Delicious<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, as mentioned, this cake is Really Very Good, in fact the Taste Team believe it may be the<\/em> best, although they’re undecided because the first-made Orange and Almond Cake<\/a> is also Very Popular…<\/p>\n

I should also note that the original recipe was for cakes plural, with the recipe being divided into large muffin tins. But I made it as a single cake and adjusted the cooking time accordingly.<\/p>\n

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Just as good on the inside…<\/p><\/div>\n

The second cake is a far more recent recipe, a Rhubarb, (Orange) Marmalade & Rosemary Cake<\/strong> from the Cuisine<\/strong> of July 2018 (No. 189.) The recipe was part of a preview feature for a book titled How To Eat A Peach<\/strong><\/em> by Diana Henry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It qualifies as an orange cake imho because the marmalade used was sweet orange and the recipe includes orange zest. Plus it tastes orange-y. (I rest my case.) The recipe is very rich, but I do not say that like it is a bad thing: no, indeed! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Rhubarb, Orange Marmalade & Rosemary cake — or what’s left of it!<\/p><\/div>\n

At any rate, by the time I had remembered “Photos!” the Taste Team had demolished most of it. I believe you may draw your own conclusions from that fact; also that one of them was still talking about it a week later. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I hope the quest may continue with more orange cakes to come. To which end, I believe there may be an Orange Poppyseed Cake in the latest NZ House & Garden…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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