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	Podcast:		Recipe for the day
	Episode:		Dundee Cake
	Category:		Arts
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	Publish Date:		2018-02-08 11:17:50
	Description:		Dundee cake is a traditional fruitcake with lots of orange. Absolutely lovely with a cup of tea, perhaps, if you like it, with a little butter. Winston Churchill’s favourite cake! You will need 200 g Soft Brown sugar 150 g Plain Flour mixed with 100 g Self Raising Flour 5 eggs 100 g glace cherries 3 tablespoons orange marmalade 100 g ground almonds Zest and juice of a small orange 80 g blanches almonds - soak in boiling water and remove the skins to blanch them Put the fruit, orange zest and juice and ground almonds in a basin and mix with 3 tablespoons of flour. Preheat the oven to 170ºC, 325ºF, Gas 3 Grease and line a deep 20 cm loose bottomed tin Cream together butter and sugar and add the marmalade an cream again Add half the flour and the eggs and beat in vigorously Fold in the rest of the flour and then the fruit Spoon the mixture into the tin and smooth out flat Place whole almonds on the top in concentric circles Place in the oven and reduce the temperature to 150ºc, 275ºF, Gas 2 and bake for 75 minutes then turn down to 140ºC, 250ºF, Gas 2 for another 40 minutes Test with a skewer, it should come out clean Allow to cool for 30 minutes, remove from the tin, then leave for another 30 minutes before carefully removing the paper
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