Quinta das Abelhas

I’ve been planning on sharing a few recipes for ages. During the summer we have a lot of visitors, and I may have become a bit big headed about my cooking, especially the vegetarian meals I cook, so I plan to share some of my inventions here.
We have an egg glut. Its amazing how many eggs 8 chickens and 2 ducks can lay, so I was recently looking for an eggy recipe and came across a 5 egg cake recipe. But it wasnt healthy enough, so I experimented:

Melt 200 gms butter with 200 gms sugar (brown please). Add to 225gms selfraising flour, mix and beat in 5 eggs. Thats the basic recipe. But now add a couple of handfuls of seeds. Whatever you have - sunflower, pumpkin, sesame, hemp. And then add a handful of rolled oats, and a pile of fruit chopped small. Again, whatever fruit you have, whatever is in season (or even cheap at the market). Pineapple, strawberries, sultanas we have tried, but I reckon any fruit will add a little something different - plums, peaches, figs, apple, pear, cherries, raspberries, currants, mango, orange, lemon zest. Whatever is in abundance.

Put in the oven on high until it rises, then on low (our gas oven only has two settings!) for some time, until a knife comes out clean. In a wood fired oven, probably just leave in for a couple of low heat hours. Or you could probably heat in an oven and then in a straw/solar oven for a few hours. It needs to cook slow.

Now I just need to grow some grain crops, find an alternative for sugar and butter (olive oil and stevia?) and grow our own oats (which we are this year)! Its a truly scrumptious and filling cake that everyone will love.

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