A warming winter treat

Feeling rather pleased with the harvest of lemons from our neighbour’s tree, which we have been looking after this winter, we decided, instead of making marmalade, to bake our favourite cake - Lemon Drizzle.

Lemon Drizzle Cake....yummy!

I used a quick, all-in method of mixing up the ingredients and baked it in a lined, round tin, in the oven - gas mark 4 for 45 minutes, until the top was golden and when a knife is pulled out of the cake, dry, you know it's cooked through.  
After turning out the cake when cooled slightly, a syrup of caster sugar and lemon juice was then poured immediately on top of the cake and left to drizzle down the sides!
Serve with at least one cup of strong tea!
See Recipes tab for the instructions.
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Lovely Lemons

  I’ve never seen a lemon growing on a tree before.    

 This morning we were thrilled to see an abundance of wonderful lemons hanging from our neighbours lemon tree and squealed with joy at the thought of home made lemonade and marmalades...
You see, we were asked by them to look after the tree during the year as they were going to be away from home a lot.  We had treated the tree with some spray earlier on in the year and were careful to cover the tree when frosts threatened... a close eye was kept on the weather and prayers were said in the hope that it would survive the Mistral winds outside.

 Well, as you can now see, the tree has done really well and produced lots of gorgeous, yellow fruit.

 

Doesn't the bright yellow go well against the dark green of the leaves.

 We have been growing one in a pot for the past 18 months and, come the Spring, it will be planted out in the ground.

Our tree has a light, yellowy green leaf and, as a young plant, is pleasing to look at even now...but I can’t wait until it starts to fruit. 

Now I'm off to find a good recipe for lemon marmalade!

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H A P P Y***N E W***Y E A R !

Wishing you all

A VERY HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PEACEFUL NEW YEAR!