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Dundee
cake
110 g Sultanas,
cleaned 225 g Butter 110 g Currants, cleaned 1 ts Baking
powder 110 g Raisins, cleaned and stoned 225 g Caster
sugar 50 g Mixed peel, chopped 3 Eggs 75 g Glace cherries,
chopped 1 tb Sherry 50 g Ground almonds 3 tb Almonds,
blanched and halved 250 g Plain flour Grated rind of 1
lemon
For a 18cm-cake tin)
Grease and line the
base and sides of the tin and grease the paper lining.
Mix
the sultanas, currants, raisins, peel, cherries and ground
almonds together.
Beat the butter until it is soft and
creamy then add the caster sugar and beat the mixture with the
lemon rind until light and fluffy in both colour and texture.
Beat the eggs together then add them gradually to the
creamed mixture, beating well between each addition. Sift
together the flour and baking powder and lightly stir it into the
creamed mixture with the sherry and all the dried
fruit.
Turn the mixture into the tin, spread it to the sides
and slightly hollow out the centre, then cover the surface with
the almonds.
Bake the cake at 160 oC (325 oF) for 2.5 - 3
hours or until a warm skewer pushed into the mixture comes out
clean.
Cool the cake in the tin for 15 minutes then turn it
out onto a wire tray to cool
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