Rhubarb Cake Recipe

I bought a bunch of rhubarb yesterday but didn't fancy my usual rhubarb crumble so I had a look for another notion. I didn't expect to find a rhubarb cake. It came out moist and yummy... more like a pudding than a slicing cake. Next time I'll have cream or custard on hand to serve with it.

1.5 cups finely chopped rhubarb

180g brown sugar
100g white sugar
150g butter or marg

1 egg

1 cup apple sauce (stewed apple)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract/essence

0.5 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon bicarb of soda

250g plain flour

50g white sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Grease or line a 13x9x2 baking tin.

Preheat the oven to 180C.

Cream the sugar and butter together.

Add the egg, vanilla and the apple sauce, and mix.

Add the flour, soda and salt and mix.

Add the rhubarb and mix.
Pour into the prepared tin and sprinkle over the sugar/cinnamon mixture.

Bake at 180-190 C in the middle of the oven for 30 to 35 minutes

Note the sugar topping can get a little overdone so keep an eye on it and cover top with brown paper if necessary.

Check if the cake is ready with a skewer as the top can look gorgeously done while the underneath lurks gloopily.

Allow the cake to cool in the tin and serve with cream, custard or ice-cream.

Potato Cake Recipe for Martina

Hi Martina,

It's not really a recipe. It's a "what have you got in the cupboard”.

Plain potato cakes made with grated raw potato.

Grate potato. Put into clean cloth and squeeze out juice.

• Use grated potato straight away or it starts to turn brown.
• Add lots of salt and pepper and then try to form into patties in your hands. Not too thick.
• If they won't stick together add in a little leftover cooked mashed potato or a little flour.
• Get oil in frying pan good and hot.
• Put a couple of cakes in and do not touch until golden brown underneath (otherwise they fall apart in the pan). Then turn over and fry til golden.
• Pop into the oven to stay warm while you cook the rest.

Left-over mashed potato cakes

Mashed potato plus some egg... (dinner for family of 4= about 1 egg)

and 1 -2 dessertspoons of flour.. enough to make it just stiff enough for making patties.

• Mix in a little of what you have in the fridge...
• Mashed carrot and fried onion.
• Left over fish and sweetcorn.
• Sauteed leek and cooked sausage chopped up fine.
• Chopped cooked rasher with onion and random leftover veggies chopped fine. (dash of worcestershire goes well with rasher and onion)
• Cook as the other cakes.
• Excellent with a fried egg if you want to add some protein.

Hope you enjoy!