Sponge and oregano and seeds

Using the cake which sank as an improvised flan-case was very successful. I filled it with a custard made from thickened evaporated milk, and covered this with tinned peach slices and a glaze made from the syrup in the peach tin boiled up with a spoonful of home-made apricot jam -- the glaze didn't quite set, presumably not having been boiled for long enough, but it didn't matter. I had some spare and kept spooning it over for each helping as it sank into the sponge overnight ;-p It would have been a very dry cake (due to being all outside and no middle, I think), so instead of going soggy it simply became manageably moistened. And the coffee flavour was barely noticeable.

I also bought a pot of oregano from the new herb-plant-stall at the market, which I have been eyeing up for a few weeks now. ( Read more... )

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