Hampshire Apple Cake - Taste the Distance Recipe

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Hampshire Apple Cake - Taste the Distance Recipe

The Taste the Distance Competition involved cooking a number of recipes and comparing the food miles between making the recipe from local produce as opposed to supermarket ingredients that could come from much further afield.

Hampshire Apple Cake

(Using ingredients local to Bishops Waltham)

Ingredients	Available From:	Food Miles:
3 medium apples	(Durley) Hylands	2 miles
350 g Self Raising Flour	(Leckford Est) Waitrose	16 miles
250 g Butter	(Yeo Valley) Budgens	80 miles
1 tsp mixed spice	Budgens . Co-op	?
1 tsp baking powder	Busgens / Co-op	?
3 eggs	Lycroft Eggs from Hylands OR Claytons from Budgens	2 miles OR 12 miles
250 g Caster sugar	(Whitworths british) Budgens	164 miles
TOTAL		174 mile

Method

Preheat oven to 180^o C.
Grease baking tin (approx 20cm x 20cm).
Rub together the cold butter and flour to make breadcrumbs and then stir in the sugar.
Peel, core and dice the apples. Add them to the dry ingredients.
Add the beaten eggs and mix well.
Bake for 40 minutes.

Food Miles Comparison, i.e. baking this recipe using local ingredients as opposed to supermarket ones

Ingredients	Locally sourced	Supermarket (Waitrose, Winchester)	How many more food miles?
Apples	Durley: - 2 miles	USA , Say E. Coast 3,600 miles	1,800 x
Flour (SR)	Stockbridge: 16 miles	EU: 200 miles (avge)	13 x
Sugar	Bury St Edmunds: 164 miles	West Indies: 5,000 miles	30 x
Butter	Somerset: 80 miles	Anchor; NZ: 11,750 miles	147 x
Eggs	Romsey: -12miles	Kent :- 65 miles	5 x
Total	274 miles	20,615 miles	75.24 x