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- From: r.gagnaux@chnet.ch (Rene Gagnaux)
- Subject: Dundee cake
- Message-ID: <58tz_0OgC1@chnet.ch>
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 12:00:00 +0200
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- Title: Dundee cake
- Categories: Cakes
- Servings: 6
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 completely.
-
- (casted sugar = granulated sugar, Glace cherries = candied cherries,
- Sultanas = seedless white raisins)
-
- (From: A feast of Scotland, Janet Warren)
-
- Salut ,
- Rene
- Working FOR ?! I'm not working FOR anybody ! I'm just having fun !!
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