To Make the Seed Cake Mrs Malbery
Item
Title
To Make the Seed Cake Mrs Malbery
Creator
Mrs. Malbery
Date
1694/1795
Description
Recipe for making seed cake, using caraway comfits.
Transcript
To Make the Seed Cake Mrs Malbery
[inserted left margin: 16] Take a pounde of buter, a pinte of Creame, 8 Egs, the whites of 2, a quarter of a pinte of sack, as much of good ale yest, a quarter of a pound of orange[ade] Cut as Small as you think fit, half a quarter of a pound of Siteren Piell, beaten to a paist, & worke it in in the Cake, then put in as much floure as will make it in to a soft paist, set it before the fire to rise, & add a pound of caraway Comfits, make it up & set it in a quick oven, a litele more than one houre will bake it.
[inserted left margin: 16] Take a pounde of buter, a pinte of Creame, 8 Egs, the whites of 2, a quarter of a pinte of sack, as much of good ale yest, a quarter of a pound of orange[ade] Cut as Small as you think fit, half a quarter of a pound of Siteren Piell, beaten to a paist, & worke it in in the Cake, then put in as much floure as will make it in to a soft paist, set it before the fire to rise, & add a pound of caraway Comfits, make it up & set it in a quick oven, a litele more than one houre will bake it.
Subject
orangeade See all items with this value
citron peel See all items with this value
Contributor
Ochsner, Elizabeth
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
16