Brian Eyers Cornish Saffron Company and Spiced Apple Cake

Welcome to another episode of the Roseland Podcast

I’m Chloe, your host, and this week on the podcast we’ve got :

• An interview with Brian Eyers from The Cornish Saffron Company
• Another recipe from Tregony’s Jenny Deal this time for a mouthwatering Apple cake

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Interview time!

You can’t be Cornish and not love a Saffron bun!

Live here long enough and you’ll pick up a few facts about Saffron, it’s history and how it’s made - but there’s always more to learn so we got Brian Eyers of the Cornish Saffron Company on to tell us more

INTERVIEW

You can contact Brian at https://www.cornishsaffroncompany.co.uk/

Recipe time!

We’re not quite professional enough here to have a recipe that includes saffron! But we do have a lovely spiced Apple cake recipe.

Another from Jenny Deal from Tregony Spiced Apple Cake

This recipe was given to me by my first husband’s grandmother c.1967

• 1 large or 2 small cooking apples, cooked to a puree with just a little water. Cool.
• 4 oz. Soft marg.
• 4oz. Caster sugar
• 1 tsp. Salt (yes 1 teaspoon)
• 1 tsp. Bicarb of soda
• 1 tsp. Mixed spice
• 4 oz. raisins.

1. Beat marg and sugar,
2. add egg, sifted flour, salt, spice and bicarb.
3. Stir in raisins.
4. Turn into lined 7 inch tin and cook for 1 hour at 160c or fan 150c.
5. 20 mins.before end of cooking time sprinkle top with a heaped teaspoon of demerara sugar.

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