Cake with plums and meringue topping

Ingredients for the cake:

• 2 eggs from free range layers
• 0.5 packet of butter (125 g = 0.55 cup = 0.28 lb.) 
• 0.5 cup of brown sugar 
• 1 cup of wheat flour 
• 1.5 teaspoon of the baking powder 
• 0.5 kg of plums (1.1 lb.)

Ingredients for the meringue:

• 3 egg whites
• 0.5 cup of brown sugar

Directions:
 
1. Wash the plums, cut them in halves and remove the pits.

2. Melt the butter in a saucepan and put aside for cooling down. 

3. Take the cake tin of 23 cm diameter and grease it using butter. Sprinke with the bread crumbs or semolina.

4. We turn the on the oven and set it to temperature of 180°C.

5. Whip the egg whites together with sugar. Add the egg yolk and mix. Next gradually add the flour and the baking powder and mix until the ingredients combine. At the very end add the melted butter and mix all the ingredients until the homogenous structure is achieved.

6. Put the mixture in the cake tin evenly and then lay the plums halves on the top with the inner side top. Sprinkle with a bit of sugar. Place the cake in the preheated oven and bake for approximately 30 min in 180°C.
7. In the meantime whip the egg whites together with sugar until you obtain a firm foam (meringue). When the meringue is ready, put in the fridge. After 30 minutes time take the cake out of the oven and put the meringue on the top. Place the cake again in the oven and bake another 50 minutes in the same temperature.