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Dundee cake

Dundee cake is a traditional Scottish fruit cake. Dundee cake recipes often incorporate ingredients like butter, sugar, lemon zest, orange zest, marmalade, flour, baking powder, eggs, milk, dried fruit, glacé cherries, candied citrus peel, currants, sultanas, ground almonds, and finally blanched almonds for a decorative finish. The only ingredients allowed according to the Protected Geographical Indication application for Dundee cake are as follows: salted butter, sugar (caster, granulated, light or dark soft brown), free-range eggs, thick peel Seville oranges (concentrated or other), finely grated orange zest, plain cake flour, sherry (optional), ground almonds (optional), sultanas, whole blanched almonds or split almonds.

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