{"id":1627,"date":"2016-11-11T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T05:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2016-10-27T08:37:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:07:40","slug":"paul-hansens-orange-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2016\/11\/paul-hansens-orange-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hansen’s Orange Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the many great stories in Liz Harfull’s\u00a0<\/em>The Blue Ribbon Cookbook <\/a>comes from Paul Hansen, and his delicious orange cake:<\/em><\/p>\n

You would be hard-pushed to describe Paul Hansen as a typical show\u00a0cook. Born and bred at historic Kulcurna Station near Lake Victoria,\u00a0Paul counts taxidermy, song writing and photography among his\u00a0many skills. He also makes a mean orange cake. Although he has been\u00a0known to whip up a six-course dinner party for 80 people to raise\u00a0money for the local gun club, his training for the task was far from\u00a0conventional. \u2018I work away a lot in mustering camps and I am\u00a0normally head cook and bottle washer for eight to ten people, but\u00a0there is not a lot of cake cooking,\u2019 he says.<\/p>\n

\"Paul<\/a><\/p>\n

Like many country show towns, Renmark has introduced a\u00a0men\u2019s only cake competition in recent years to generate fresh\u00a0interest in cookery. The contest is fierce in this Riverland version,\u00a0which celebrates local produce by insisting the blokes make an\u00a0orange cake using a recipe provided. Paul won first prize in 2007 with\u00a0a cake decorated by torchlight on the bonnet of his ute; he had to do\u00a0it at the last minute after being held up organising entries for the wool\u00a0section, which he convenes. \u2018I don\u2019t take it too seriously. I just came in\u00a0after work one evening, threw everything into a bowl, mixed it up, put\u00a0it in the oven and off we went,\u2019 he says. \u2018I just did what they said I had\u00a0to do in the show book.\u2019<\/p>\n

Paul has also been known to enter taxidermy in the craft section.\u00a0He studied the relatively lost art by correspondence about eighteen\u00a0years ago, and has sometimes been asked by wildlife services to help\u00a0preserve animals and birds for display. \u2018I don\u2019t know what got me into\u00a0it,\u2019 he confesses. \u2018But I don\u2019t do heads on walls. I am more interested\u00a0in preservation.\u2019<\/p>\n

Through his volunteering and competing at the show, Paul is following\u00a0a long-standing family tradition. His great grandfather exhibited\u00a0at the very first Renmark Show, and the society is due to hold its 100th\u00a0event in 2010. It comes at a time when the show society is gaining a\u00a0new lease of life, winning a Community Event of the Year award and\u00a0drawing more patrons. Among the most popular attractions are the\u00a0vintage tractor and stationery engine displays, a ute muster, native\u00a0animal displays, and a giant sandpit for the children.<\/p>\n

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Paul Hansen’s Orange Cake<\/p>\n

85 g butter (or margarine), softened
\n3\u00a0eggs (50 g each)
\n11<\/span>\u20444 <\/span>cups SR flour, sifted
\n1<\/span>\u20442 <\/span>cup castor sugar
\n90 ml orange juice
\ngrated rind of one navel\u00a0orange<\/p>\n

Preheat the oven to moderate (180 \u00baC in a conventional electric oven).<\/p>\n

Grease a 20 cm round cake pan, and line the base.<\/p>\n

Put the butter, eggs, flour, sugar, orange juice and rind in a large\u00a0bowl and beat with an electric mixer for about 3 minutes. Pour the\u00a0mixture into the prepared cake pan and bake for 30 to 40 minutes,\u00a0until golden brown and firm to the touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the many great stories in Liz Harfull’s\u00a0The Blue Ribbon Cookbook comes from Paul Hansen, and his delicious orange cake: You would be hard-pushed to describe Paul Hansen as a typical show\u00a0cook. Born and bred at historic Kulcurna Station … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,420],"tags":[93,476,472,66,474,475,473],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extract","category-recipes","tag-liz-harfull","tag-mens-only-cake-competition","tag-orange-cake","tag-recipe","tag-renmark-show","tag-riverland","tag-the-blue-ribbon-cookbook"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4v1Of-qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}