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Carmelized Plum and Rosemary Polenta Pound Cake
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Brief Description
The polenta contrasts the sweet-tart of the cooked plums
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Main Ingredient
Plums
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Category: Cakes
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Cuisine: American
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Prep Time: 40 min(s)
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Cook Time: 60 min(s)
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Recipe Type: Public
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Posted By: wsjrecipes
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Posted On: Sep 01, 2012
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Ingredients:
- 1/2 pounds - Unsalted Butter
- 1 1/2 cups - All Purpose Flour
- 1 tablespoons - Baking Powder
- 1 cups - Yellow Cornmeal
- 1/2 teaspoons - Salt
- 2 tablespoons - Fresh Rosemary finely minced
- 1 - Lemon zested
- 1 cups - Sugar
- 3 - Eggs
- 2 tablespoons - Cognac or any brandy
- - Prepared Plums recipe below
- 6 - Large Plums pitted and cut into 6-8 wedges each
- 1/3 cups - Sugar
- pinchs - Salt
- 1 teaspoons - Lemon Zest finely grated
- 1 teaspoons - Fresh Rosemary finely minced
- 2 tablespoons - Cognac or rum or any brandy
Directions:
1. Butter a 5½x10-inch loaf pan. Line the bottom with parchment paper. Butter paper. Set pan aside.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder, cornmeal and salt.
4. Cream together butter, rosemary, lemon zest and sugar until very light and fluffy.
5. Add eggs to butter mixture, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
6. Beat in flour mixture, alternating with cognac, just until well-combined. Spoon 2/3 of batter into pan. Evenly distribute one-quarter of prepared plums over batter. Add rest of the batter. Spread remaining fruit over the top and, using a spoon or fork, push pieces down a little.
7. Bake for 60 minutes or until done, testing with a toothpick after 50 minutes. Cake should be nicely brown, pulling away from the edges of the pan and not too dry. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then invert cake onto your hand or a rack and quickly re-invert it onto another rack.
8. Serve warm or at room temperature. (The cake is also delicious sliced and toasted.)
Prepared Plums
In a medium saucepan, cook plums with sugar, salt, lemon zest and rosemary over medium heat until fruit is very soft but not falling apart, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat. Add cognac.
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