Saturday, September 13, 2008

Show day and Lemon Cake

We headed out to the Royal Adelaide Show yesterday, for a very long and very busy day.

We had a number of activities planned and did almost all of them. We watched the farriers, the woodchopping, the sheaf throwing, the shearing and the wool spinning. We had a look for Willow and Gabriel's art entries- Gabriel received two Merits for his work. We also watched the cars, motor bikes and fireworks in the stadium in the evening. It was a very long day.

Willow and Gabriel were both allowed to pick one lolly and one toy showbag, so there was quite a bit of discussion over the bags. Since we infrequently buy mainstream lollies (usually at the show, or a friend's party) we needed to discuss what some of the items were in the bags. Willow came home with My Little Pony and Violet Crumble, and Gabriel bought Hot Wheels and Sunny Boy. Usually the last few years I've bought Fruchocs, but since we are healthier now, and the Fruchocs bag is very large I went for a very small Freddo Frog. Definately enough for me, those few frogs were satisfying, but sweet enough to remind me why these days we buy good quality chocolate.

On that topic, we mostly brought our own food this year. I made baked beans and Damien made bread, and we bought some salad. Usually I get a really nice avocado boat for lunch, but apparently the avocado people didn't have a good crop this year, so no boat for me! The boat just involves half and avocado scooped out, mushed up, and put back in with a couple of corn chips for sails- very simple and very tasty! Overall the show has a reasonable choice of food these days, though it's still a bit lacking on the fresh side of the diet.

Anyhow the lemon cake I made for the day is as follows....

Lemon Cake (too busy and tasty to photograph)

125g butter
100g rapadura sugar
2 large eggs
200g spelt flour
1 lemon
1 tablespoon yoghourt
1 teaspoon baking powder


Cream the butter and sugar, gradually beat in the eggs alternating with the flour until completely mixed.

Grate the rind from 1 lemon, and squeeze the juice from the lemon, add both to cake mix. Also add tablespoon of yoghourt. Cover and leave to sit overnight.

Heat oven to 130.

Grease loaf tin.

Add baking powder to mixture, mix well. Pour mixture into tin, and bake for 1 1/2hrs. Test with skewer for readiness. Cool on wire rack.

Bon appetit!

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