Nuno Mendes’s Soaked Portuguese Rice Cake

Ingredients

• 200g rice flour
• 150g flour
• 200g caster sugar
• 75g butter
• 150ml milk
• 2 eggs
• zest of ½ an orange
• zest of ½ a lemon
• 10ml orange liqueur such as Licor Beirão
• 1g smoked paprika
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baker’s yeast dissolved in a bit of warm water or powdered yeast
• butter to coat the moulds
• powdered sugar to sprinkle on top
• 175g caster sugar
• 375g water
• 375g ruby Port wine
• 600g caster sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 540g pasteurised egg yolks
• whole milk
• 500g double cream
• 150g whole milk
• 150g caster sugar
• black pepper to taste
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 4 egg yolks
• ea salt
• 25g Old Pulteney Port whisky