{"id":293,"date":"2010-12-12T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/?p=293"},"modified":"2010-12-12T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T13:32:38","slug":"jamaican-ginger-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2010\/12\/12\/jamaican-ginger-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican ginger cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend Alice served some lovely ginger cake with the tea. It came from one of the Suffolk farm shops, it was moist, sticky on top and oozing with ginger. I loved it.<\/p>\n<p>At home I looked through the net, found a recipe that I thought would be closest to the one I wanted and made it last night. It is excellent, but I will double the amount of ginger next time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>250 g butter<\/li>\n<li>275 g soft brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>4 eggs<\/li>\n<li>AT LEAST\u00a0 4 tbsp of fresh grated ginger<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp vanilla essence<\/li>\n<li>250 ml milk<\/li>\n<li>320g plain flour<\/li>\n<li>4tsp baking powder<\/li>\n<li>4tsp ground ginger<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 tsp cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oven 180 C\/gas mark 4.<\/p>\n<p>Prepare the cake tin, grease it and line with baking paper.<\/p>\n<p>Sift all the powdered ingredients and flour.<\/p>\n<p>Cream the butter and sugar, then add eggs one by one. Add ginger ( and some more ginger! ) and vanilla. Beat in all the powders and milk. Pour into the prepared tin. Bake for 40-45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2010\/12\/DSC_1534.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-296\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2010\/12\/DSC_1534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend Alice served some lovely ginger cake with the tea. It came from one of the Suffolk farm shops, it was moist, sticky on top and oozing with ginger. I loved it. At home I looked through the net, found a recipe that I thought would be closest to the one I wanted and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2010\/12\/12\/jamaican-ginger-cake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jamaican ginger cake<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dessert","category-room-for-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}