Name: Dundee Cake
Yield: Serves 8–10
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg; ⅔ cup (90 g) whole blanched almonds, for decorating; Finely grated zest of 2 oranges; 4 eggs; ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 2¼ cups (285 g) flour; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (115 g) ground almonds; ½ cup (160 g) orange marmalade; 1 lb (450 g) mixed golden and dark raisins; 6 tablespoons (90 ml) Scotch whisky; Pinch of salt; 1 cup (225 g) butter, at room temperature, plus more for the pan; 1 cup (225 g) firmly packed Demerara sugar

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Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook

By Annie Gray

Published 2019

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Miss M. M. Mitchell, author of The Treasure Cookery Book, published in 1913, was the superintendent of the Polytechnic School of Cookery on London’s Oxford Street. Her recipes are clear and easy to follow, and she continued to write during the Great War, advising girls who had little knowledge of cooking on how to get started. When Sybil bakes a cake for the first time in season 2, she’s echoing the experience of many women who threw

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