How to use up old bread in a brilliantly fruity North African cake – recipe | Waste not
How to use up old bread in a brilliantly fruity North African cake – recipe | Waste not
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Use old breadcrumbs to make light work of this zesty Tunisian drizzle cake. Today’s dish is an adaptation of khobz Tunis, which translates literally as “Tunisian bread”, although this citrus cake actually originates from Algeria. It’s a type of drizzle cake made with breadcrumbs and ground almonds, and is light yet sticky and incredibly delicious. The syrup is usually flavoured with orange blossom water, but I used one made with just orange and lemon juice, because that’s all I had.
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I first came across this cake at the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork, Ireland, a place I’ve long felt an affinity with, and especially its co-founder Darina Allen, who has an incredible passion for food and a mission to teach people how to cook traditional food. In line with the Slow Food movement, Ballymaloe teaches seasonal cooking in a way that truly respects the soil, our ecology and the people who produce our food.
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Ground almonds are delicious but expensive, so this cake’s use of equal amounts of breadcrumbs to ground almonds saves a fair bit of money; it also makes the cake much lighter than other similar ones that use only ground almonds. Keep surplus bread crusts and bread in a cloth bag, so they dry out, then blend to a fine powder. The dried breadcrumbs will then keep in a sealed jar for up to six months, or even longer.
