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Seed Cake, Family

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 2

Cost about 4d. per pound if made with dripping.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1753. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Seed Cake, Family, made from Dougtl. — No. 1. Take a quartern of dough left from making bread. If procured from the baker's, set it in a basin, covered with a cloth, before the fire to rise. Best half a pound of butter or drip]Ding to cream ; work this into the dough, and add three-quarters of a pound of moist sugar, an ounce of caraway-seeds, and a well-beaten egg

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