Carraway Cake (American)

The "Queen" cookery books. No.11. bre... · Beaty-Pownall, S · 1904
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The "Queen" cookery books. No.11. bread, cakes, and biscuits
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Ingredients (13)
plainer cake variation
Instructions (14)
  1. Beat 1/2lb. of butter to a cream with 1lb. of caster sugar.
  2. Add the well-beaten yolks of four eggs, mixing them well in.
  3. Add 10oz. of dried and sifted flour (previously mixed with half a grated nutmeg, the same amount of powdered cinnamon, and 1oz. of carraway seeds) in spoonfuls alternately with the whites of the eggs whipped into a very stiff froth.
  4. Bake about an hour in a quick oven.
  5. This makes a rich cake.
Plainer Cake Variation
  1. Get a quartern of bread dough from the baker's.
  2. Set it in a warm place, covered with a cloth, to rise.
  3. Beat 1/2lb. of butter or clarified dripping to a cream.
  4. Work this well into the risen dough.
  5. Add lastly 12oz. of moist sugar, 1oz. of carraway seeds, and one well-beaten whole egg.
  6. Knead all this well together.
  7. Put the mixture into a buttered cake tin.
  8. Set it before the fire to rise again.
  9. After this bake in a thoroughly heated oven for two hours for a large cake, or for one hour if you divide the dough into two cakes.
Original Text · last edited 4 days ago
Carraway Cake (American).—Beat ½lb. of butter to a cream with 1lb. of caster sugar, then add the well-beaten yolks of four eggs, mixing them well in; lastly, add 10oz. of dried and sifted flour (previously mixed with half a grated nutmeg, the same amount of powdered cinnamon, and 1oz. of carraway seeds) in spoonfuls alternately with the whites of the eggs whipped into a very stiff froth, and bake about an hour in a quick oven. This makes a rich cake. A plainer one is produced by getting a quartern of bread dough from the baker's; set it in a warm place, covered with a cloth, to rise; beat ½lb. of butter or clarified dripping to a cream, and work this well into the risen dough, adding lastly 12oz. of moist sugar, 1oz. of carraway seeds, and one well-beaten whole egg. Knead all this well together, then put the mixture into a buttered cake tin, and set it before the fire to rise again. After this bake in a thoroughly heated oven for two hours for a large cake, or for one hour if you divide the dough into two cakes.
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