Rhubarb Ginger Damper
"Damper is a traditional Australian bread, but this version is cut up and served as a kind of scone. The recipe comes from the Australian Women’s Weekly cookbook "Muffins, Scones and Breads”. Recipe posted for Zaar World Tour 2005. NOTE: Australian chefs use a larger tablespoon measure so will only need 2 tablespoons of crystallised ginger and the same for the extra sugar."
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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2 Dampers
ingredients
- 15 g butter
- 3 stalk rhubarb, finely chopped (200g)
- 300 g self-raising flour
- 0.25 ml bicarbonate of soda
- 4.92 ml ground cinnamon
- 60 g ground almonds
- 36.97 ml finely chopped crystallized ginger
- 75 g caster sugar (superfine)
- 250 ml milk (approximately)
- 36.97 ml caster sugar (extra)
directions
- Pre-heat oven to 450F / 220C /gas mark 6.
- Melt the butter in a small pan, add rhubarb, cook and stir for about 5 minutes or until rhubarb is just tender; leave to cool.
- Sift flour, soda and cinnamon into a medium sized bowl; stir in ground almonds, ginger, sugar and rhubarb.
- Stir in enough milk to mix to a soft, sticky dough.
- Turn dough onto a floured surface, knead until smooth.
- Divide dough in half, place halves onto greased baking trays, shape into a 15cm rounds; mark each round into 8 wedges, sprinkle with the extra sugar.
- Bake for about 20 minutes.
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Reviews
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The flavor was wonderful as the almond and cinnamon combination went wonderfully with the rhubarb and ginger. Its a tangy peppery sweet that's a little more complicated than your usual breakfast sweetness. I made this using a blend of splenda and sugar. Not a good idea as it may have created some odd restusts on the exterior of the damper - not sure as this was my first. Mine was brown and tender lacking any crispyness - something that often happens with sugar substitue. Nonetheless we enjoyed it thoroughly. Thanks Caroline.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
