We like to ensue that our food has a superior taste and texture to
anything that has previously passed anyone's lips, therefore our carrot
cake is an experience of moistness that few cakes even approach.
In order to create a cake of such high pedigree we have returned to
the original carrot. The familiar bright, orange carrot is
a descendent of purple and yellow carrots that came into Europe, from
Arabia, in the fourteenth century.
Selective
breeding by Dutch growers in the seventeenth century produced the
colour pigmentation we are familiar with today. My organic gardener,
Greg, is very keen to re-establish these forgotten vegetables that
were pushed aside by modernisation. As seed guardians for the HDRA (Henry Doubleday Research Association)
we have been growing John聮s Purple, a direct descendent
of the purple carrots brought to us over five hundred years ago.
We
will also be using our homegrown walnuts. As walnut trees
take twenty years to establish before they produce their first crop
you will probably have to make do with shop brought ones.
We like to ensue that our food has a superior taste and texture to
anything that has previously passed anyone's lips, therefore our carrot
cake is an experience of moistness that few cakes even approach.
