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 Johns 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.
