APPLE CAKE WITH NUTS AND RAISINS

Ingredients :

1 cup flour ¼ cup sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 egg

5 large apples

½ cup nuts

¾ cup arrowroot

Brown Sugar for apples

Cinnamon

5 tablespoons milk

Rind of 1 lemon

2 tablespoons butter

½ cup raisins

Juice of ½ lemon

Extra butter for the top

Preparation:

Sift flour with baking powder and add lemon rind.

Beat butter with sugar until creamy. Add egg and continue beating while adding milk alternating with flour.

Transfer batter to a 10 inch (22 cm) pie pan or a round loose bottom pan.

Peel and core apples, and cut in 4 wedges. Dip each apple wedge in water and cover with brown sugar. Place apple wedges over cake batter forming a circle. Sprinkle nuts, raisins, cinnamon and dot with butter.

Bake in oven 350 °F (180 °C) for 45 minutes.

Remove from oven. Cool and unmold.

Mix arrowroot with lemon juice and sugar to taste. Heat, stirring until thickened. Glaze cake with this mixture.

6 to 8 servings

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