My Aunt Nevils Seed Kake

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Title: My Aunt Nevils Seed Kake
Creator: Aunt Nevil
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for making cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
Transcript: Take [illegible] [strikeout] one pound of floore [strikeout] one pound of butter Rub them well to gether take 4 spounefuls of of sweet Creme 4 spounfuls of Yeast 4 Egs take out 2 of the whites mix it in to paste & set it to the fire to Rise an houre take half a pd of Caraway Comfits & mix itt well with thm butter youre pan so bake itt an houre will Bake itt
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Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Stevens, Jen; Le, Vincent
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
Identifier: 55

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Food; Breads & Baked Goods