Guernsey Gache

Submitted by Coasty

"A traditional fruit cake from the Channel Islands. I have not made this but have eaten many and with a good strong pot of tea. From From www.islandlife.org"

 

• Ready In: 3hrs
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 10

ingredients

• 750 g whole meal flour
• 250 g guernsey butter
• 2 eggs
• 125 g candied orange peel
• 500 g sultanas (or currants if preferred)
• 125 ml guernsey milk
• 60 g dry yeast
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 60 g dark brown sugar

directions

1. Heat oven to 350°F.
2. Warm the milk and set aside.
3. Cream up the butter with sugar, add eggs then mix with the flour. Add some yeast & a pinch of salt.
4. Make a depression in the dough and pour in the warm milk. Add the rest of the yeast and fruit, mixing & kneading the dough.
5. Leave to rise in a warm room for two hours. Knead again and grease a cake tin. Tip in the gache and cook for one hour in a moderate oven until golden brown.

Reviews

[Anonymous]

I tried this recipe after having gauche in Guernsey, well what a waste of ingredients. I followed the recipe to a T, the ingredients must be wrong especially with 750g of flour. The mixture would not bind together but I persevered. It did not rise as it was too heavy a mixture and did not cook through properly (if at all) and it weighed like a house brick. This really is a recipe for disaster. What a shame whoever put this on the internet hadn't tried to cook it first.