Mrs Bushels Caraway Cake
Item
Title
Mrs Bushels Caraway Cake
Creator
Bushel, Mrs.
Date
1694/1795
Description
A recipe for making caraway cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
Transcript
Mrs Bushels Caraway Cake
[inserted left margin: 308 R[x]] half a peck of fine floure 3 pound of swet buter 16 ou[nces] [test loss] to ye[the] pound, and a qrter of a pound & hole pound of cara[way] [text loss] comfits 3 qrters of a pound of suger 10 eges bot ye[the] [text loss] taken oute one pinte of swete creame warmed, [strikeout] y[text loss] Eggs beaten & put to it a pinte of ale yest 4 nutmegs [text loss] 6: spounfuls of roase water, mix ye[the] nutmegs & suger in [text loss] ye[the] floore yn[then] rub ye[the] buter in it [instered above: as] small as you can yn[then] put i[text loss] to it your Eggs & creame and yest to wet it. Of musk an[d] [text loss] amber Grese of each one graine yn[then] put in your Comfits to put it in to your pan and Bake it in a prity quick oven be sure youre yest be very good
Transcribed: Karmen Caylor, 04-11-2017 Last Revised: Jen Stevens, 06/19/2017
[inserted left margin: 308 R[x]] half a peck of fine floure 3 pound of swet buter 16 ou[nces] [test loss] to ye[the] pound, and a qrter of a pound & hole pound of cara[way] [text loss] comfits 3 qrters of a pound of suger 10 eges bot ye[the] [text loss] taken oute one pinte of swete creame warmed, [strikeout] y[text loss] Eggs beaten & put to it a pinte of ale yest 4 nutmegs [text loss] 6: spounfuls of roase water, mix ye[the] nutmegs & suger in [text loss] ye[the] floore yn[then] rub ye[the] buter in it [instered above: as] small as you can yn[then] put i[text loss] to it your Eggs & creame and yest to wet it. Of musk an[d] [text loss] amber Grese of each one graine yn[then] put in your Comfits to put it in to your pan and Bake it in a prity quick oven be sure youre yest be very good
Transcribed: Karmen Caylor, 04-11-2017 Last Revised: Jen Stevens, 06/19/2017
Subject
caraway See all items with this value
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
36