Wiltshire whitsun cake

3/4 lb Sm. tart green gooseberries
      5    Elderflower blossoms*
    1/2 lb Plain wholemeal flour
      2 ts baking powder
      2 lg Eggs
      6 oz butter
      6 oz Pale muscovado sugar
           Demerara sugar
           Flowers & leaves to garnish
 
  *Note: A handful of sweet geranium or lemon balm leaves may be substitued
  for elderflower blossoms if desired.
  
  Top and tail the gooseberries into a mixing bowl.  Add the finely chopped
  leaves or the florets of elderflower carefully stripped from the stalk, and
  stir to mix with the fruit.  Sift the flour and baking powder into a
  separate bowl.  Cut then rub in the butter. Stir in the muscovado sugar
  then the lightly beaten eggs. Finally, stir in the gooseberries and their
  flavourings.
  
  Grease the base of an 8-inch spring-clip cake tin, line and grease again.
  Turn the cake mixture into it and mound it up in the middle. Bake at 350 F
  (180 C) gas mark 4 for about 1 1/2 hours. Unlike most cakes, this one does
  not come away from the sides of the tin when it is cooked.
  
  Cool for a few minutes before unmoulding.  Sprinkle with demerara sugar and
  decorate with fresh elder blossom or sweet geranium or melissa leaves, and
  serve the deliciously moist cake while it is still warm - as a pudding,
  with plenty of cream.
  
  Source: Philippa Davenport in "Country Living" (British), June 1988.