Seed Cake

Ingredients

• One pound and a quarter of flour
• one pound of butter
• one pound and a half of loaf sugar
• ten eggs
• one ounce of caraway seeds
• a few drops of essence of lemon

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to cream, and mix the sugar, powdered, with it.

2. 2

   Whisk the whites of the eggs to a strong froth, and add to them the yolks, stirred a little with a spoon, but not beaten; mix them with the butter and sugar; then put in the flour, lightly by degrees, stirring it till well incorporated; add the caraway seeds, well washed, picked, and dried, and a little essence of lemon; put it immediately into a buttered tin mould, and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 129. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Seed Cake. One pound and a quarter of flour, one pound of butter, one pound and a half of loaf sugar, ten eggs, one ounce of caraway seeds, and a few drops of essence of lemon

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