Dundee Cake Recipe

• 300 g Plain Flour
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Mixed Spice
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 100 g Candied Peel
• 100 g Cherries
• 480 g Currants
• 200 g Sultanas
• 200 g Raisins
• 100 g Almonds, blanched
• 4 Eggs
• 4 tbsp Whisky
• 1 Lemon Rind, grated
• 200 g Margarine
• 1 tbsp Black Treacle
• 200 g Demerara Sugar

• Take a bowl and mix plain flour, cinnamon, mixed spice and salt together.
• In a different bowl, put candied peel, cherries, currants, sultanas, raisins and lemon rind, to make nuts and fruit mixture.
• Take another bowl and whisk eggs and whisky together. Add margarine, sugar and black treacle and mix well, until it is soft.
• Now, mix flour (in small amounts) and egg mixture in a bowl, beating it well continuously.
• When it has mixed well, add nuts and fruits mixture and stir well again.
• Place this mixture in the greased cake tin and flatten it with hands, while it is wet.
• Decorate it with almonds on top.
• Now, bake this for 1½ hours, at a temperature of 300-350 degrees F and then for 2 hours, after reducing the temperature to 275-300 degrees F.
• Let it cool down a bit, cut into slices and serve.