Dundee Cake
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Ingredients
- 8 oz butter
- 8 oz sugar
- 8 oz flour
- 4 eggs
- 1½ lb dried mixed fruits
- 2 oz peel
- 4 oz glace cherries. halved
- 1 rind and juice of a lemon
- 2 oz ground almonds
Accompaniment
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Method
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Grease and line a deep (8 inch) round cake tin with greaseproof paper.
Mix dried fruit, peel, cherries and ground almonds with flour.
Cream the butter, sugar and lemon rind together until pale and fluffy. Gradually beat in eggs. Add the lemon juice.
Fold in the fruit and flour mixture, then spoon into the prepared tin.
Optional: arrange whole almonds in circles on top to decorate.
Bake at 325F/170C to start. Turn down to 270F/140C to finish.
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