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Pear loaf

By Abigail Donnelly

Serves 6

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cooking Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

125 g butter, plus 1 T
90 g sugar
2 free-range eggs
3 T buttermilk
1 T almond essence
120 g flour
1 t baking powder
2 pears, peeled and diced

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C and grease a 23 cm loaf pan.

2. Beat 125 g butter and sugar together until light and creamy. Add the eggs one at a time, then add the buttermilk and almond essence.

3. Beat in the flour and baking powder, then stir through the pears. Spoon into the loaf pan.

4. Place the remaining butter in a piping bag fitted with a small round nozzle and pipe a line of butter down the middle of the cake. (This will create the characteristic crack down the middle.) Bake on the middle rack for 40 minutes, then cool and remove from the tin.

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Photographs: Jan Ras
Food assistants: Claire-Ellen Van Rooyen And Tahila Pillay