Saturday, 9 September 2017

FIG AND GINGER LOAF

Cut up 1 cup of dried figs ,pace them in a bowl with 1 cup of cold water and 1tsp of bi carbonate of soda and leave soak overnight .
Next day preheat your oven to 160 deg C .
Spray your roll pan and line with baking paper .
Now place the figs and liquid in a medium saucepan and add 1 cup of brown sugar ( firmly packed ) with 2 oz of margarine /butter .
Sir all together over a low heat until the sugar is dissolved , then add 1 tbs of minced ginger .
Remove the saucepan from the heat and allow to cool .
When cooled add 2 cups of self raising flour into the fig mixture .
Add 1lightly beaten egg .
Now spoon the mixture into the greased roll pan , ( fill half way only )
Enclose the mixture with the lid .
Stand the roll pan up in the oven ( vertically ).
Bake in the oven for 60 minutes
Test with a skewer before turning off the oven , if not completely cooked pop back in oven with lid on for a further 10minutes .
Place the roll pan on a wire cooling rack remove lids and let cool before removing from pan ..
delicious .!!
 

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