Dundee cake recipe, cakes, Scottish recipes

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Ingredients

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

Method

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 margarine. 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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