A Medieval cake favourite reimagined '“ Lawrence Murphy
No one is quite sure exactly where the recipe originates but most agree it probably comes from carrot pudding from Medieval times.Â
Sugar and sweeteners such as honey were very expensive during this period and sweet carrots were used instead.
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Hide Ad With this in mind I wanted to cook something as moist as carrot cake but with another vegetable.Â
Ingredients
170ml olive oil
200g brown sugar
2 eggs
1 yolk
200g spelt flour or wholemeal
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
Pinch baking powder
200g peeled and grated parsnip
Knob fresh ginger chopped
Method
1. Put the olive oil, sugar, eggs and yolk into a large bowl and beat together.
2. Add the spelt flour, bicarb and baking powder and carry on beating.
3. When the mixture has come together to form a thick batter add the ginger and parsnip.
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Hide Ad4. Put the batter into a lined tin loaf and bake in a pre-heated oven 180c gas 4 for 50 minutes to an hour.
5. Check the cake is cooked by inserting a skewer which should come out clean.Â
6. Allow to cool for 5 minutes before taking out of the tin and placing on a cooling rack.