Dundee Cake
| One of the truly best example of Scottish baking can be found in this ancient recipe.
1 cup soft butter (not melted)
1 cup sugar
5 large beaten eggs
2 1/2 cups of self-raising flour
2/3 cup of Raisins
2/3 cup Sultanas (golden raisins)
2/3 cup currants
Finely grated zest of 1 orange and 1 lemon
1/4 cup Glace cherries or dried half cherries
1 cup ground almond
1 tsp cinnamon
2 Tbs Sherry
1/4 cup milk
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup of whole blanched almonds
Step 1: Preheat oven to 300F and grease a 9 inch cake pan
Step 2: Using either a mixing bowl or a hand electric whisk, beat the butter and sugar together until light and creamy, add beaten egg slowly. If the mixture begins to curdle add a little of the flour.
Step 3: Add all mixed fruit, cherries, raisins, zest, and sherry. Sift in the flour, salt and cinnamon, then fold in the ground almonds, adding the milk to keep moist.
Step 4: Pour mixture into the cake pan and arrange the almonds on top in a circular pattern. Bake for about 2 hours, until the top is lightly Brown. You may need to cover the top of the pan with foil to keep the cake from over browning.
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Black Irish Flan
| Legend has it that the Black Irish came from Spain. Here is a traditional Irish dessert sometimes called Flan Eireann.
3/4 cup fleur pastry
1/2 oz corn flour
3 egg yolks
3/4 pint cold milk
1 1/2 Tbs sugar
1/2 cup ground almonds
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/6 cup chopped almonds
4-6 glazed cherries (Candied Cherries)
Step 1: Roll out pastry and line a 8-inch cake tin. Cover the pastry with parchment paper and weigh down paper with rice. Bake in Oven for 25 minutes at 400 degrees. Remove paper and rice when pastry is almost baked; put pastry back in oven to finish cooking paper covered areas, approximately 5 minutes. Let cool and then remove pastry shell from cake tin.
Step 2: Blend corn flour and egg yolks, Next add a little of the cold milk.
Step 3: In a sauce pan bring remaining milk to a boil. Pour heated milk into mix, stir constantly.
Step 4: Rinse out sauce pan with cold water and pour mixture into sauce pan and bring back to a gentle boil.
Step 5: Add sugar, ground almonds, and vanilla extract to mixture and stir until throughly blended. Pour mixture into pastry shell and set off to cool. Decorate flan top with chopped almonds and glazed cherries. |
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