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Serves 6
Ingredients
4 eggs
150g caster sugar
150g plain flour
5ml baking powder
95g butter (melted then cooled)
90ml milk
rind of lemon
650g pears (peeled, cored and thinly sliced.)
5ml vegetable oil
25ml breadcrumbs
Method
Put eggs and sugar in bowl standing over a pan of simmering
water. Whisk mixture for 10 minutes with electric mixer. Take
off heat, continue whisking for further 5 minutes. Sift the
flour, baking powder and salt. Gently fold half the ingredients
into the egg mix. Slowly pour the butter into the mixture being
careful not to knock out too much air. Fold in the lemon, milk
and remaining flour. Fold in pears. Grease insides of 23cm cake
tin with oil. Then sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Pour mixture in
the tin and bake at 180C for about 40 minutes. When cooked leave
to rest for five minutes before turning out. The torte can be
served warm or cold with vanilla ice cream.
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