Dundee Pies Recipes

DUNDEE CAKE WITH HOT MARMALADE SAUCE

Steps:

• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 300°F. Butter 8-inch-diameter cake pan with 2-inch-high sides; line bottom with parchment paper. Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and spice into medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter, sugar, whisky, and grated orange peel in large bowl until fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Stir in dry ingredients, then all dried fruits and candied peel. Transfer batter to prepared pan.
• Bake cake 1 hour. Remove cake from oven. Brush top with 2 tablespoons marmalade. Arrange almonds around edge, pressing lightly to adhere. Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 20 minutes longer. Cool cake completely in pan on rack. (Can be made 3 days ahead. Cover; store at room temperature.) Turn cake out of pan; peel off parchment. Place upright on plate.
• For sauce:
• Combine marmalade and whisky in medium saucepan. Cut all peel and white pith from oranges. Working over bowl to catch juices, cut between membranes, releasing orange segments. Add 2 tablespoons orange juice from bowl to saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until marmalade melts and sauce is heated through, about 5 minutes. Transfer sauce to serving bowl.
• Serve cake with warm sauce, orange segments, and whipped cream.

DUNDEE CAKE

Steps:

• Combine raisins, currants, mixed peel, cherries, and orange rind. Dredge with 1/3 cup flour.
• Cream butter or margarine and sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time until light. Combine 1 2/3 cups flour, baking powder, and ground almonds; fold into batter mixture. Mix in fruit. Spread in foil lined 8 x 3 inch round pan. If using a different size pan fill 3/4 full.
• Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for about 1 1/2 hours, until an inserted wooden pick comes out clean. Remove cake from pan.
• Toast almonds in 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Heat corn syrup, and brush over top surface of hot cake. Place almonds in whatever design you like. After cooling, cake will not be sticky.

DUNDEE PIES

Steps:

• Put the fat and water into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Put the flour.
• and salt into a basin and make a hole in the middle, pour the boiling water.
• and fat into this, and mix with a spatula until cool enough to handle, then.
• form into a ball. This must be done quickly before the fat hardens too much.
• Turn on to a floured board, and knead well, then pat into a flat shape.
• Divide into half and put one half to keep warm. Roll the half out into a.
• large oval and stand a small jar (about 3 inches diameter) in the middle.
• Mould the pastry up the sides to a height of about 3" and when it stands.
• well remove the jar, and make another mould in the same way. Roll out the.
• lids, cutting them into rounds to fit the top.
• Make your filling out of meat,add pepper, Worcestershire sauce or other of your choice, add onions,flavorings of your choice, and 4 tablespoons meat stock.
• Mix all the filling ingredients together and fill the pastry moulds. Dampen.
• the edges and pinch the top on. Make a slit in the centre to let the steam.
• out and brush the top with milk or beaten egg to colour it. (Remember the.
• rule, one hole for plain, and two holes for onion pies).
• Bake on a baking sheet in a slow oven (250) so that the inside has time to.
• cook, about 45 minutes. While cooking roll out the remainder of the pastry.
• and proceed in the same way.
• NOTE:.
• You could also do meat and bean pies, with the beans seeming a lot like.
• Campbell's Beans and put onto the top of the meat filling just under the.
• lid. Or you could put mashed potatoes on top instead of a lid.