ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΠΟΛΛΑ!!!!!
Happy New Year to all you wonderful people out there in cyber world! Ralfa here hoping you all had a good Christmas and wishing you a Very Happy New Year! Now I am going on a short holiday for a couple of weeks. so this recipe will have to last you until I get back, and being a Greek recipe there will probably be enough of it to last you until then!!!
THE recipe is for a special St. Basil’s Day cake, St Basil’s Day is 1st January so we are being very seasonal here!To cook this you will need a large baking tin, the sort you roast meat in will do fine, as you can see from the recipe there is a lot of it!
METHOD
Beat the egg yokes with the sugar and beat in the olive oil and the orange peel. Dissolve the soda in the orange juice and add to the mixture.
Beat the egg whites well and to half of them, add half the flour, and half of the brandy with the baking powder mixed into it beforehand. Mix together until evenly distributed.
Then mix in the other half of all the ingredients. The only reason for doing it in two halves is that there is a lot of mixture!
Pour the mixture into the roasting tin and bake for about an hour in a moderate oven.
You can test the cake during cooking with a knife or skewer, it should come out fairly clean when you stick it in the cake!
This cake has quite an open bready texture when cooked and it keeps very well so you can cut it in half and use one half and wrap the other half in foil, or you can invite loads of people round and eat the whole lot in one go!
Yum!!!!
This is me, Ralfa. Aren't I just gorgeous?