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Traditional Dundee Fruit Cake Recipe

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How to make it

  • Sieve together all the dry ingredients;
  • Mix the peel, fruit, cherries, chopped almonds and lemon rind;
  • Whisk the eggs and milk/sherry/brandy together;
  • Cream the margarine, sugar and black treacle until soft;
  • Add flour and egg mixtures alternately to the marg. Stir in fruit mixture;
  • 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;
  • Tie a double band of brown paper round the outside of the tin, standing well above the top of it;
  • Add almonds on top;
  • Bake for 3½ hours at 300-350f 170c for first 1½ hours, then reduce to 275-300f 150c for the remainder of the time.

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