SC - OOP - seed cake help

[cclark at vicon.net]

Chimene wrote:
>Looking for a recipe for "seed cake" my husband remembers his English 
>grandmother making...  he remembers multiple "seeds" 

Maybe this isn't as OOP as you meant :-), but there are recipes for seed
cakes in _Martha_Washington's_Booke_of_Cookery_, transcibed by Karen Hess.
This book most likely originated in 17th century England, perhaps about
1650. The aniseed cake calls for flour, butter, and sugar-coated anise
seeds, in proportions resembling shortbread. The caraway cake has additional
ingredients: rose water, perhaps some egg whites or yolks, etc.

There are also English recipes from this period for large currant cakes that
sometimes call for either caraway or anise. I haven't seen any such recipes
that call for poppy or sesame.

Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon

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