My Aunt Flevils Seed Kake
Item
Title
My Aunt Flevils Seed Kake
Creator
[illegible], Aunt
Date
1694/1795
Description
A recipe for making cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
Transcript
My Aunt Flevils Seed Kake
Take [illegible] [strikeout] pme 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
Take [illegible] [strikeout] pme 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
Subject
caraway See all items with this value
caraway comfits See all items with this value
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