Apple Cake
Ingredients:
1 kg (2 lbs.) apples, peeled, cored and cut into thin slices
2 eggs
200ml cream
210 g (1 cup) sugar
1 tsp. Melanurc or other apple liqueur (optional)
195 g (1 1/2 cups) flour
pinch of salt
butter for the pan and dotting the cake
Preheat oven to 190°C/ 375°F. Grease a 10-inch cake pan with butter. Whisk together the cream and the eggs. Add the apple liqueur, and then the sugar. Add the flour and salt and blend until smooth. Add the apples to the batter and mix until they are well coated. Pour batter into a prepared pan. Dot the surface of the cake with small bits of butter. Bake 55-60 minutes. Serve warm.
I lifted this recipe from Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Italian Cooking, where it appears in slightly different form as "A Farm Wife's Pear Tart." The original recipe doesn't call for apples or apple liqueur (obviously), and it uses 1/4 cup milk instead of cream.
I've used 125ml and 200ml of cream and both amounts work, though I prefer the results with 200ml. (Can't imagine why.)
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I'm confused (easy to do). When do you add the cream/milk? The picture looks good though.
At the very beginning, start by whisking the cream together with the eggs. It is such an easy cake to make, and it always gets raves.
Do you know where to get Melanurc in the US -?
I have only had it in Italy and would love to find it.
I don't know, SB, I never saw it there. I did a quick internet search, but found nothing in English (except for this post) so I doubt that it's available over there. That's too bad, because I think it would sell pretty well.
Ooh this does look intriguing; will try this next, thanks!
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