To Make a Caraway Cake

Title: To Make a Caraway Cake
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe to make a baked caraway cake, using caraway comfits.
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Take 3 pound of floore & a pinte of alle yest a pound of Buter & a quarter of suger & a litele rose water & so melt your buter you may Kneade you Dough with your yest so let it ly & rise till your oven be redy then kneade 3 quarters of a pound of Caraway Comfits in to it so make it up
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Contributor: Grimm, Stephanie; Ochsner, Elizabeth; 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.