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

Subject

flour

butter

cream

eggs

caraway

cakes

baking

yeast

caraway comfits

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