SPICY CAT

spicy quatre quarts

- 250 g butter

- 8 heaped table spoons flour

- 150 sugar

- 4 table spoons golden syrup (or honey)

- touch of whiskey or rum

- 4 eggs

- 30 walnuts (chopped)

- 150 g currants

- 1 lemon

- 50g candied lemon

- cinnamon

- allspice

- coriander

- ginger

- anis étoilé - star anis

- nutmeg

- clove (little)

- white pepper (very little)

- poppy seeds (crushed)

- 2/3 of a tea spoon of baking powder

cut up the walnuts

cut up the candied lemon

zest the lemon

melt the butter with the sugar while mixing it well. take off from gas.

add the golden syrup (or honey).

the juice from the lemon.

turn the oven on.

in a bowl mix walnuts, currants, candied lemon.

put the flour in another bowl and mix in the spices and the baking powder.

take one spoon of this flour mix and add it to the mixed fruit/walnut/

mix well.

now add two spoons of flour mix to the butter/sugar mix and one egg yoke (keep whites aside for later)

mix well and then proceed to add another two spoons of flour mix to the butter mix and again another egg yoke. and again until all flour and egg yokes are nicely mixed in.

add in the fruit mix.

now, beat the egg white to firm, and add it to the mix.

place in a rectangular buttered and foiled tin. put in oven rather low for one hour, check with a spike until it comes out just clean.