DUNDEE CAKE
Cream together six ounces of butter and six ounces of castor sugar; well whisk four eggs.
Sieve together eight ounces of flour with half-teaspoonful of baking-powder, add to the flour the grated rind of one lemon. Next add the eggs and flour alternately to the butter and sugar; stir in well; mix together quarter-pound currants, quarter-pound sultanas, three ounces chopped peel, and one ounce shredded almonds. Add these to the other ingredients, mixing well. Put mixture into a lined tin, sprinkle almonds on the top, and bake one and a half hours.
JOU CAKE
6 oz. of butter.
½ lb. of castor sugar.
¾ lb. of flour.
4 eggs.
Cup of milk.
¼ lb. of sultanas.
¼ lb. of glacé cherries, cut in half.
2 oz. of citron.
A little essence of vanilla.
2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder.
First prepare a deep Yorkshire pudding-tin, grease it well, and line it with white paper, and cut. Make it fit the tin; then grease the inside paper well and dust over with sugar. Put the butter into a deep basin and beat well to a cream, then add the sugar and work that in well, then the eggs, one at a time, and beat thoroughly. Add the fruit and the essence, mix the baking-powder with the flour, and stir in gradually to the other ingredients; lastly, stir in a teacupful of milk and pour into the tin, and bake three-quarters of an hour without opening the oven door if possible. If the oven is very hot, put some paper over the top to prevent it getting too brown. The cake can be cut up into any shapes, as it is two and a half inches high when cut.
A NICE RICH CAKE
¾ lb. butter.
½ lb. Demerara sugar.
½ lb. flour.
6 eggs.
1 lb. currants.
1 lb. sultanas.
½ lb. candied peel.
¼ lb. sweet almonds, blanched and sliced.
½ teaspoonful mixed spice.
¼ pint rum or brandy.
Beat butter to a cream; then add sugar and beat well; next the eggs (which must have been well beaten for twenty minutes), then the fruit, peel, and spice. Add the rum and then the flour. Beat all well together; bake in a lined tin, with buttered paper, in a moderate oven three and half hours.