bitter touch

after the very nice lemon-syrup loaf cake, i wanted to try the orange variation of it. so here is the 'seville' orange-syrup loaf cake. it's 'seville' because i don't think singapore gets seville oranges; the way to evoke the taste, suggested by nigella, is to use a normal orange with a lime.
anticlines and synclines. i made the lemon-syrup loaf cake using all-purpose (with baking powder) in place of self-rising flour, even though the recipe called for self-rising. but today i found gold medal self-rising on discount and used it. and i suppose the sinking in the centre is the intended effect, although i can't understand why the self-rising version results in more sinking than the all-purpose one. the most sunken part of the cake is also the most sodden, so while there is less cake, there will be more syrup there.