#caraway

Ingredients

• 1 dessert spoon caraway seeds
• 1 tsp green aniseed (or fennel seeds?)
• 3 oz margarine (or butter)
• 3 oz sugar (caster and demerara mixed) + a little extra
  
• 1 tsp lemon zest
  
• 1 egg
• Splash of sherry
• 2 oz rye flour
• 4 oz self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Milk
  

Method

• Grease and line a loaf tin. Heat oven to 180C
• Toast seeds in a dry frying pan for a few minutes, grind with pestle and mortar
• Cream fat and sugar, stir in two thirds of the seeds and lemon zest
• Mix in egg, flour, baking powder and sherry
• Add splash of milk if dough very thick
• Put dough in tin
• Mix demerara sugar with remaining seeds and sprinkle across top of cake
• Bake for 30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean
• Serve warm or cold spread with butter