Dundee Cake

Janet Keiller has a shop on the south side of the Seagate in Dundee where she has spent the best part of her life – besides raising seven children – making preserves, jellies, biscuits, sweeties and cakes. She has always believed in diversifying into unique lines and it has certainly paid off. Now she is almost 60 and is ready to retire. She has a tidy sum put by and is keen to use it to help her son, James, develop the business. He is the only son who has shown an interest in her enterprise and has also developed her innovative flair. He is just 22 when she hands over the running of the Keiller shop in 1797.