Ingredients
- 8 small ripe
- juicy pears
- 3/4 cup margarine or softened butter
- 2/3 cup soft light brown sugar
- any lumps squashed
- 1 cup self-raising flour (or all purpose flour + 1/2 tsp baking powder)
- 1 cup semolina
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tsp almond essence
- 1/2 cup flaked almonds
- 1 squeeze of lemon juice
Instructions
- Heat oven to 180 C.
- Grease and line a 9*9 inch square cake tin with baking paper
- Peel, quarter, core and place pears into a bowl half filled with water with a squeeze of lemon juice in it.
- Beat together the margarine and sugar, until the graininess of the sugar is gone.
- Beat in eggs one at a time
- Mix in flour, baking soda and semolina
- Drain and dry the pears.
- Mix in the almond essence and the pears
- Scrape all the batter into the cake pan and spread it out to the edges and flatten it out as best you can.
- Sprinkle over the flaked almonds
- Bake for 30-35 minutes
- Allow to cool in the tin for five minutes at least.
- Can be eaten warm or cold.
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