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Dundee cake

British  

noun

  1. a fairly rich fruit cake decorated with almonds

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He coined his own version of the London underground map, in which the stations are named after the tastes they trigger on his tongue – King’s Cross to him tastes like a moist Dundee cake.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2015

Of Scottish ancestry, her Dundee cake is a variation on the classic, named for the city famous for its marmalade industry.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2011

The visitor then took out of a little bag a Dundee cake and some sweets, and cut a small slice of the cake with his penknife.

From The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) by Brampton, Henry Hawkins, Baron

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