Apple and Cheese Cake

This is a traditional autumnal recipe from the county of Gloucestershire in England. It makes good use of locally produced food with the Bramley apples and the local double Gloucester cheese, although it was originally made with single Gloucester cheese.

Ingredients
120g butter
180g caster sugar
2 medium size beaten eggs
225 cored and grated cooking apples (save the juice and the peel)
120 grated double Gloucester cheese
60g flaked almonds
450g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
2 heaped teaspoons baking powder

Method
1 Grease a 2lb loaf tin with vegetable oil.
2 Line the tin with greaseproof paper.
3 Re-grease the loaf tin.
4 Place the butter and sugar into a large mixing bowl.
5 Using a wooden spoon beat the ingredients together until they are light and fluffy.
6 Add the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition.
7 Stir in the apples, cheese and almonds thoroughly.
8 Place a sieve over the mixing bowl.
9 Spoon the flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder into the sieve.
10 Shake the flour into the mixing bowl.
11 Using a metal spoon fold the flour and raising agents into the cake mixture.
12 Using a spatula, scrape the mixture into the tin.
13 Smooth the top.
14 Bake the cake in the oven at 180 degrees centigrade/gas mark 4 for about 1 hour or until golden brown and a skewer comes out cleanly of the middle of the cake.
15 Transfer the cake in the tin and cool on a wire cooling rack for 10 minutes.
16 Then turn the cake out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Store in an airtight tin.