Peel and core 4 dessert apples, cutting them up fairly chunkily. Grease the cake tin with butter. Mix the butter and sugar well, until smooth. Mix in the eggs until you have a light consistency Mix in the baking powder and the flour.

Fill the tins with the batter and put the apple pieces on top and sprinkle with sugar to finish. Bake in a medium to hot oven at 175°C/325?F/gas mark 3 for approximately 35 minutes, and serve warm with some whipped cream.

They told us that ‘a piece of our apple cake a day, keeps all kinds of evils away.' Another example of Viking tradition that we have inherited!