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Lunch yesterday consisted of fried white pudding (sliced) with boiled vegetables. Followed by baked apples, with cores replaced by brick dates and probably some brown sugar as well.

Tea mainly consisted of the new Dundee cake.

The fruit turned out to have sunk somewhat, suggesting to BH that it should perhaps have been a desert spoon of milk at the end, rather than a table spoon. See reference 1.

The crumb was much darker than last time, rather darker than it appears in the snap included above. This may be the result of using raisins rather than the sultanas the recipe had called for. Perhaps with more experience, I would have known better, I would have known that it made a difference. Or it may be the result of longer cooking, with BH remembering my fussing about opening the oven to inspect from time to time last time, which I did not do this time. Maybe two and a half rather than nearly three hours?

And the crumb this time was not crumbly, in the way it was last time. More the texture of a supermarket cake rather than that of a cake shop cake. Was that the result of the extra soda-bic?

Current thinking is that I liked it better last time around, but we shall see. Still got a way to go with this one.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/12/dundee-cake.html. Assembly.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/07/sugar-fix-consumed.html. Last time around.