Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh was a British actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her definitive performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind  

Vivien Leigh, the greatest beauty of her time, died on 8 July 1967 at her home in Eaton Square, Belgravia, London at the age of 53. The actress was under treatment for a recurrence of tuberculosis which she had incurred in 1944.

 Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in "Gone with the Wind" (1939)

 Vivien Leigh and Jack Merivale in the play "Lady of the Camellias" (1961)

1946

Olivier and Leigh in 1957

Leigh and husband Laurence Olivier

Vivien Leigh, (1967)

Sicilian Apple Cake

1/3 cup walnuts120g melted butter

½ kg or 4-6 tart apples

1 lemon

1 heaped cup flour

1&1/2 tsp baking powder

3 eggs

1&1/3 cups sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

100mls milk

¼ cup raisins

2 tblsp pine nuts

1 tblsp brown sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

Carefully toast the walnuts in a moderate oven for around 10 minutes.

Line and grease a 23cm cake tin with baking paper. Drizzle the bottom with a little of the melted butter and scatter over the walnuts.

Peel, core and slice the apples, then toss with the zest and juice of the lemon.

Whisk the eggs, sugar, milk and vanilla together then add the remaining melted butter.  In a separate bowl mix the flour and baking powder together before whisking in the wet ingredients.  Stir until you have a smooth batter.

Pour a third of the batter over the walnut prepared cake tin.  Arrange a third of the apple slices over the batter, then sprinkle with half the raisins. Add another third of the batter, apples and remaining raisins before repeating again with the remaining batter and apples.

Lastly, sprinkle the top with pine nuts, brown sugar and cinnamon.  Bake at 170C for 1 -1&1/2 hours.

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