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Spiced rum cake
Fruit and vegetables
½
lime
, juice only
4cm/1½in piece of fresh root fresh
ginger
, peeled, roughly chopped
½
lemon
, juice only
Tins, packets and jars
75g/2½oz
golden syrup
225g/8oz
plain flour
Cooking ingredients
75g/2½oz black
treacle
175g/6oz soft dark
brown sugar
3 balls
stem ginger
in syrup, finely chopped, plus 2 tbsp ginger syrup from the jar
½ tsp
bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp
baking powder
4 tsp
ground ginger
1 rounded tsp ground
cinnamon
½ tsp ground
cardamom
¼ tsp ground
allspice
¼ tsp ground
nutmeg
pinch
salt
grind of
black pepper
75g/2½oz
caster sugar
1 small
cinnamon
stick
125g/4½oz
icing sugar
, sifted
Dairy, eggs and chilled
150g/5½oz unsalted
butter
, at room temperature, plus extra for greasing
3 free-range
eggs
, lightly beaten
Other
4 tbsp dark
rum
3 tbsp dark
rum
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