Scotch Seed Cake

Ingredients

• 2 pounds light-bread dough
• 12 ounces sugar
• 12 ounces of butter
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon caraway seeds
• 8 ounces flour

Method

1. 1

   Weigh out the dough in the morning, set it with butter and sugar in a warm place.

2. 2

   Work together, beat in eggs one at a time, add caraway seeds.

3. 3

   Let stand for half an hour, then add flour and beat for ten minutes.

4. 4

   Pour into buttered cake molds, rise for about an hour, bake in a black oven for less than an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 88. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Scotch Seed Cake. Takes five hours time to make, raise, and bake, using dough to begin with. 2 pounds light-bread dough — 5 cupSb 12 ounces sugar — IJ cups. 12 ounces of butter — 1^ cups. 4 eggs. 1 teaspoon caraway seeds. 8 ounces flour

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