Seed Cake

Ingredients

• Half pound of Flour
• Two ounces of Sugar
• One gill of Milk
• One Egg
• One teaspoonful of Baking Powder
• Two teaspoonsful of Carraway Seeds
• Half ounce of Candied Peel finely chopped
• Three ounces of Clarified Fat
• Salt

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.

2. 2

   Rub fat into the flour, as for pastry, add this to the sugar, seeds and candied peel, mix well with a wooden spoon.

3. 3

   Beat the egg and milk together.

4. 4

   Pour this to the other ingredients, mix quickly, put into a lined well-greased cake tin (square), and bake for one hour.

5. 5

   This mixture may be baked in patty pans, and is sufficient to make twelve small cakes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Artizan recipes (1896) by Clarke, Charles Mrs, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Seed Cake. Ingredients. Half pound of Flour. Two ounces of Sugar. One gill of Milk. One Egg. One teaspoonful of Baking Powder. Two teaspoonsful of Carraway Seeds. Half ounce of Candied Peel finely chopped. Three ounces of Clarified Fat. Salt

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