Dundee Cake Recipe
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Dundee Cake Recipe

- can also be used as a fruit cake or as a Christmas Cake:


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  • Ingredients For Dundee Cake:



    300g Plain Flour
    1 teaspoon cinnamon
    1 teaspoon mixed spice
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    100g candied peel
    100g cherries
    480g currants
    200g sultanas
    200g raisins
    100g blanched almonds
    4 eggs
    4 tablespoons milk or sherry or brandy
    1 lemon grated rind
    200g margarine
    1 tablespoon black treacle
    200g demerara sugar



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    Dundee Cake

    Cooking Directions For Dundee Cake:



    1. Sieve together all the dry ingredients.

    2. Mix the peel, fruit, cherries, chopped almonds and lemon rind.






    3. Whisk the eggs and milk/sherry/brandy together.

    4. Cream the margarine, sugar and black treacle until soft.

    5. Add flour and egg mixtures alternately to the marg. Stir in fruit mixture.

    6. Put into an 8-9 inch tin, lined with double thickness of greased greaseproof paper round the sides and brown paper and greased greaseproof paper at the bottom.

    7. Tie a double band of brown paper round the outside of the tin, standing well above the top of it.

    8. Add almonds on top.

    9. Bake for 3.5 hours at 300-350f 170c for first 1.5 hours, then reduce to 275-300f 150c for the remainder of the time.

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    Origins of Dundee Cake

    The origins of Dundee Cake are thought to date back to a time when fruit cake was popular during the 19th century and Keiller's of Dundee sold a version of the cake but with almonds on top. This gave the fruit cake a new distinctive look and flavour and was named Dundee Cake.







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