White cherries, Oil on linen, 36 x 36cm
White cherries are called wisnie in Polish and there are many versions of their traditional Cherry Cake. I’ll share the quick and easy one…no surprises there!
Simple Cherry Cake
Ingredients
½ cup flour
100g sugar
30g tablespoons butter
1 cup milk
2 egg
½ tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
400g fresh cherries, with pits removed
Powdered sugar to serve.
Method
Clean the cherries and remove pits, pat dry, arrange them in a buttered tray, not one with a quick release bottom or your mix will dribble out!
Mix the flour, eggs, sugar, salt 20g of the melted butter, add the milk and stir until you make a runny dough. Pour over the cherries, dot with remaining butter and bake in a preheated 180C oven for 60 minutes until golden and cooked through.
Once cool, dust with icing sugar and serve.
The Polish version puts the dough in first, then the cherries and a sweet crumble on top.
White currants, Oil on linen, 36 x 36cm
I was lucky enough to photograph these gorgeous white currants in the Adelaide Hills, and painted them for the Tastes of Summer series, but I’ve never really cooked with them. Does anyone have any recipes?