Upside-down cake, take 2
3 December 2024 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeHaving located my missing walnuts, I considered doing a Pear & Walnut Hat, but instead had another go at an upside-down pear pudding, using the National Trust recipe for a Victorian Gingerbread and Pear Upside-down Pudding (which also uses walnuts), halved. The result was delicious and generous in size -- the original must have been six generous helpings -- and definitely does not require "extra thick double spooning cream" as advocated by this blogger for serving. Unfortunately it fell apart when I turned it out of the tin; the chunks of pear simply split away from the cake and dropped off sideways ;-)
Possibly because I didn't peel the pears, or because I was using a deep six-inch tin (having halved the quantities) rather than an eight-inch tin; I did halve the chunks of pear so that they weren't that much too large relative to the surface area, which made them more cubical and less relatively flat in cross-section, and that probably didn't help either... Also, the cake may have been a bit overdone, since I gave it the full cooking time despite having reduced the quantities, and then another ten minutes after my previous experience since it still seemed a bit soggy when I tested it, and as before the bottom/top got a bit scorched. But as I said, the topping was deliciously moist and didn't require sauce, so I'm not sure that was an issue.
Anyway, it makes no difference once the result has been chopped up to be eaten ;-)
Possibly because I didn't peel the pears, or because I was using a deep six-inch tin (having halved the quantities) rather than an eight-inch tin; I did halve the chunks of pear so that they weren't that much too large relative to the surface area, which made them more cubical and less relatively flat in cross-section, and that probably didn't help either... Also, the cake may have been a bit overdone, since I gave it the full cooking time despite having reduced the quantities, and then another ten minutes after my previous experience since it still seemed a bit soggy when I tested it, and as before the bottom/top got a bit scorched. But as I said, the topping was deliciously moist and didn't require sauce, so I'm not sure that was an issue.
Anyway, it makes no difference once the result has been chopped up to be eaten ;-)