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A seed cake (heritage)
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| | -The Yankee Cook Book, c1939 A SEED CAKE |
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Procedures:
| 1 | (a recipe in rhyme) get a tin, and as soon as you"ve butter it o"er, to assist it in turning our nicely procure half a quartern of dough which your baker will bring when he comes round with bread, if he has such a thing, and he must be a curious tradesman indeed if he cannot supply it at once. | | 2 | To proceed, set it down by the fire to rise for a time, then obtain half a pound of fresh butter - mind, prime and three pounds of powdered loaf sugar - the best - with some caraway seeds - say an ounce - with the rest, mix them up in the usual way, and the cake may be placed in a moderate oven to bake. | | 3 | Note: at prim new england tea-drinkings when the best china, line and silver were brought out in honor of neighbors who might have driven miles over the drifts of snow for a friendly visit, seedcake supplemented the pies, doughnuts and cheese, and cold meats to be set out for the guests. | | 4 | It was made in various ways. | | 5 | In the country - eggs made it light, but in the towns, where there were bakeries, yeast was purchased to leaven it. | | 6 | To asssist the readers of "godey"s" in producing the popular tea-cake, mrs. | | 7 | Hale formulated the above directions in rhyme. |
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