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.
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