What a gorgeous cake tin and the recipe is very intriguing - less sugar than many Bundt tin recipes I’ve seen, and the flavours sound delicious. I have a Bundt tin that I don’t use often enough so I might give this a go. Full disclosure on cake tins, I have about as many as you, though baking has never intersected with my professional life, and I bake much less frequently these days. My excuse for owning so many is that quite a few are my mum’s, which I can’t bear to part with (including a fish-shaped tin for salmon mouse, that I made a couple of times in the 80s 😂. Hopefully my daughter will want some of her grandmother’s tins, and some of mine one day 🌸
I hope so! A little less sugar because I've added honey as well, mainly because I liked the sound of 'honey, ginger and lemon' together, it sounds very soothing. How lovely that you have your mother's cake tins; what a memory-legacy to have in the kitchen cupboard.
My mother often made nut loaf, but she used a soup tin with both ends removed. And among my cake tins is a Soldier's Cake Tin made by Willow during WWII. It had a tight-fitting lid so the cake it contained could be mailed to a soldier serving overseas. The one I tracked down still had sticky tape marks suggesting it had made at least one long journey.
When I was about 8, I "borrowed" the bundt tin to make a mud cake. Quite literally: made the mud in the back yard, packed the tin full and stuck it in the oven. The cake was not a success partly because it just shrivelled up and cracked and partly because my mother was extremely displeased. I spent the rest of the day in my room.
Dear wonderful Jill (and Terry), I’ve been making your date and nut loaves (from Old Food) in old-fashioned tube tins for many years. They are easily made vegan-friendly (not that I am, but I have many vegan friends) by substituting Nuttelex for butter - it doesn’t impact the flavour negatively as there is only a tablespoon. I have far too many cake tins (dating from my now-adult kids’ memorable birthday parties) but am thrilled to work for a library service that now lends them to our patrons! I might request we purchase some beautiful Bundt tins too… https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/WPAC/HOME?HOMEPRMS=UD_LIBRARY_OF_THINGS
I admit to owning far too many cake tins considering we rarely eat cake but I like to be prepared ! I do have a date nut cylindrical tin as well a a few gem irons all from op shops !
Up until last Christmas I had 1 large round, 4 sponge, 2 mini rounds, 4 mini muffin, a dolly vardin, I did have a heart shaped one given away previously. The aforementioned went to my niece. I still have 2 spring form, a medium round, a medium square, large muffin plus two loaf tins, and these days I rarely bake, but these tins are kept “just in case”. The one thing I do make from time to time due to it being so easy, is a date and walnut loaf, but you have to be able to see the dates, not chopped finely. What a beautiful Bundt tine, I don’t think I have seen one like that before, but then I haven’t been looking lol…
What a gorgeous cake tin and the recipe is very intriguing - less sugar than many Bundt tin recipes I’ve seen, and the flavours sound delicious. I have a Bundt tin that I don’t use often enough so I might give this a go. Full disclosure on cake tins, I have about as many as you, though baking has never intersected with my professional life, and I bake much less frequently these days. My excuse for owning so many is that quite a few are my mum’s, which I can’t bear to part with (including a fish-shaped tin for salmon mouse, that I made a couple of times in the 80s 😂. Hopefully my daughter will want some of her grandmother’s tins, and some of mine one day 🌸
I hope so! A little less sugar because I've added honey as well, mainly because I liked the sound of 'honey, ginger and lemon' together, it sounds very soothing. How lovely that you have your mother's cake tins; what a memory-legacy to have in the kitchen cupboard.
My mother often made nut loaf, but she used a soup tin with both ends removed. And among my cake tins is a Soldier's Cake Tin made by Willow during WWII. It had a tight-fitting lid so the cake it contained could be mailed to a soldier serving overseas. The one I tracked down still had sticky tape marks suggesting it had made at least one long journey.
Such evocative images. The soup tin! Thanks, Jan.
When I was about 8, I "borrowed" the bundt tin to make a mud cake. Quite literally: made the mud in the back yard, packed the tin full and stuck it in the oven. The cake was not a success partly because it just shrivelled up and cracked and partly because my mother was extremely displeased. I spent the rest of the day in my room.
Dear wonderful Jill (and Terry), I’ve been making your date and nut loaves (from Old Food) in old-fashioned tube tins for many years. They are easily made vegan-friendly (not that I am, but I have many vegan friends) by substituting Nuttelex for butter - it doesn’t impact the flavour negatively as there is only a tablespoon. I have far too many cake tins (dating from my now-adult kids’ memorable birthday parties) but am thrilled to work for a library service that now lends them to our patrons! I might request we purchase some beautiful Bundt tins too… https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/WPAC/HOME?HOMEPRMS=UD_LIBRARY_OF_THINGS
I love this idea so much. The Library of Things. Thank you for introducing me to it, I shall spread the word.
One at the Coal Loader in Waverton too
I admit to owning far too many cake tins considering we rarely eat cake but I like to be prepared ! I do have a date nut cylindrical tin as well a a few gem irons all from op shops !
How beautiful!
Up until last Christmas I had 1 large round, 4 sponge, 2 mini rounds, 4 mini muffin, a dolly vardin, I did have a heart shaped one given away previously. The aforementioned went to my niece. I still have 2 spring form, a medium round, a medium square, large muffin plus two loaf tins, and these days I rarely bake, but these tins are kept “just in case”. The one thing I do make from time to time due to it being so easy, is a date and walnut loaf, but you have to be able to see the dates, not chopped finely. What a beautiful Bundt tine, I don’t think I have seen one like that before, but then I haven’t been looking lol…
A quick survey of the cupboard tells me that we have 7 tins but we are criminally short on profane tea towels