Seed Cake

Ingredients

• Half a pound of butter.
• Half an ounce of caraway seeds.
• Half a pound of castor sugar.
• One gill of milk.
• One pound of flour.
• One teaspoonful and a half of baking powder.
• Four eggs.

Method

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   Cream the butter and sugar together in a basin until it is quite white; add the eggs one at a time, beating each one in thoroughly; stir in half the flour as lightly as possible; pour in the milk and add the remainder of the flour; then add the seeds and baking powder; mix it all well together, put the mixture into a cake tin lined with buttered paper, and bake it in a moderate oven for two hours and a quarter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ocklye cookery book (1909) by Eleanor L. Jenkinson, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SEED CAKE Ingredients Half a pound of butter. Half an ounce of caraway seeds. Half a pound of castor sugar. One gill of milk. One pound of flour. One teaspoonful and a half of Four eggs.

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