To Make the Seed Cake Mrs Malbery

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Title: To Make the Seed Cake Mrs Malbery
Creator: Mrs. Malbery
Date: 1694/1795
Description: Recipe for making seed cake, using caraway comfits.
Transcript: [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 orangeade 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.
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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

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