Dundee Cake
Ingredients
- 6 oz currants
- 6 oz sultanas
- 6 oz seedless raisins
- 2 oz blanched almonds. chopped
- 6 oz orange peel
- 12 oz plain flour
- 10 oz butter
- 10 oz brown sugar
- 1 finely grated rind of orange
- 1 finely grated rind of lemon
- 6 eggs
- to decorate whole blanched almonds
Accompaniment
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Description
A classic, british, rich and buttery fruit cake
Method
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1. Grease and line a big and deep round cake tin with greaseproof paper.
2. Mix fruit, peel and chopped almonds with flour.
3. Cream the butter, sugar and orange and lemon rinds together, than beat in eggs.
4. Fold in the fruit and flour mixture, then spoon into the prepared tin. Arrange whole almonds in circles to decorate if you like.
5. Bake at 170ยฐC for 3 hours.
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