If I make a cake I like to enrich it with some nutritious ingredients including, fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds. I also like to use interesting flour. Last year I hunted around for a basic, cake recipe that could be adapted to the seasons. I came up with a wonderful plum and almond cake which can be adapted to be gluten free by substituting gluten free flour for plain flour. This year I have tweaked the recipe and used yogurt instead of buttermilk and added a few other complementary ingredients.
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This is the season for ripe, succulent figs. It is rare to taste ripe figs in this country but if you are going to now is the time to seek them out in good green grocers where they have been imported from Europe.
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