Created by Tisme on December 29, 2019
Step 1: Preheat your oven to moderate [170°C].
Step 2: Butter or oil a large loaf pan (19cm x 9cm) & line the base with non stick baking paper.
Step 3: In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until soft, creamy and fluffy; add the eggs, one at a time.
Step 4: Stir in the glacè ginger, or crystallized ginger, figs and pecans.
Step 5: Sift flours together & add to ginger mixture with the sour cream, mix gently until well combined.
Step 6: Spoon mixture into prepared loaf pan.
Step 7: Bake the loaf in preheated oven for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours or until when cake is tested with a fine cake skewer it comes out clean. Cool on wire cake rack for 5 minutes, then remove cake from loaf pan to cake rack to finish cooling.