honoroitisfantastic Figs in the kitchen - plum/apricot ash cakes

[honoroit]

Hi everyone! 

 

It's me, breakfast prince Figs.  You may remember me from my popular recipes for Jam or meat Rolly Polly.

 

Well, the seasons are changing again, and the weather is finally not swamp-hot in the tropical marsh of the DC metro region.

 

So today, ash cakes.

 

If you use apricots, hold in mind that these were roman imports at the time, and were hard to grow domestically in the UK, because not hot.  So, savor every morsel as delicacy!

 

These can actually be made in the ashes of a fire, but let's use an oven so we don't get cancers.

 

 

RECIPE FOR 12 HONEY, OAT AND SPICE CAKES

 - 250g Scottish porridge oats

  - 125g unsalted butter

  - 50g chopped dried apricots or dried apples (or plums, or cherries!)

  - 4 large tablespoons runny honey

  - 1 level teaspoon of ground cinnamon (+pinch of nutmeg)

METHOD

 - Preheat your oven to 180C (160C in a fan oven). Celsius not faren-hot, it's about 360faren-hot.

 - Melt the butter in a large saucepan and remove 
from the heat. 

 - Add the honey, oats, cinnamon and dried fruit to 
the butter and stir until everything is well mixed. 

 - Grease a baking tray, spoon 12 dollops of the 
mixture on it and then flatten them slightly.

 -  Bake in the oven for 10–12 minutes.

 

  - Place the cakes on a wire rack and leave to cool!

 

(Also good with custard, proper custard,  🍮 not creme brulee, the yellow soup kind)

 

Here is a trick for custard:

 - add a few spoons of expensive baby milk powder. It has special fats. You'll sleep like a log.

 

Here is wonderous music for in the background:

 

 

 

-- Figs, who eats as, and among, the common 

 

Edited August 13 by honoroit
Spells, title correction

[Techwright]

The use of the word "ash" is a bit of a turn-off, but the recipe does sound good...

 

As a citizen of the second-largest peach growing state in the Union, I'm wondering if dried peaches might work for this.  Peaches pair very nicely with cinnamon and honey, though I've never dehydrated them before.  I do have a friend who spends much of September drying apples, so I might have to beg of them to test run some peaches so I can try this (then beg some dried apples off them so I can try that as well).

[honoroit]

2 hours ago, Techwright said:

The use of the word "ash" is a bit of a turn-off, but the recipe does sound good...

 

As a citizen of the second-largest peach growing state in the Union, I'm wondering if dried peaches might work for this.  Peaches pair very nicely with cinnamon and honey, though I've never dehydrated them before.  I do have a friend who spends much of September drying apples, so I might have to beg of them to test run some peaches so I can try this (then beg some dried apples off them so I can try that as well).

 

I've had dried peaches only once, I got them from Amazon (and you can get them with no sulfur added).

 

They'd work splendidly! 

 

Hope you enjoy it