How To make Seed Cake
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup butter or margarine -- (1 stick)
1 cup milk
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla or lemon extract
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 teaspoon caraway seeds
1 teaspoon sesame seeds
Cream egg, butter and sugar until fluffy. Add milk and dry ingredients alternately. Bake in moderate oven at 350 F. until golden brown, about 1/2 hour if pan is shallow, longer if loaf pan is used. Test with straw. Serves about 8. The Workbasket, 1977 Reader Recipes, submitted by Flora McKinney Hefti MC formatting by bobbi744@acd.net ICQ#2099532
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Eat like a Hobbit! Bilbo's Seed Cake (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit)
Let's journey to Middle Earth as we have an invitation for elevenses at Bilbo Baggins home! He's sure to make some wonderful food but we'll surprise him by making and bringing a Hobbit favorite; Seed Cake. It's so good we'll have to resist the temptation to eat it before we get there!
What you'll need:
3/4 c Butter, room temperature
1 c Superfine Sugar
3 Eggs, beaten
2 c Self-Rising Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 1/2 tsp Caraway Seeds, roughly crushed
Zest of 1 Orange and 5-6 T Orange Juice
1/8 c Sugar
Beat butter and sugar together. Gradually add egg and flour, alternating between the two. Add baking powder, caraway, zest and juice. Pour mixture into greased and lined with parchment 2 lb loaf pan. Sprinkle with sugar. Bake for about 1 hour in a 325 F degree oven or until a skewer comes out clean. Let cool in pan for about 10 minutes.
Cookbook used: Recipes From the World of Tolkien by Robert Tuesley Anderson 2020
How to Make Seed Cake — The Victorian Way
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Mrs Crocombe is back in the kitchens at Audley End House, making a suppertime treat not for the Braybrookes, but for her fellow upper servants. This delicately flavoured seed cake is an ideal evening snack with a slice of cheese or a nice cup of tea. (Or, indeed, both.)
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INGREDIENTS
• 6oz (170g) butter
• 6oz (170g) light brown sugar
• 3 eggs, separated
• 4½ tbsp milk
• ¾ tsp caraway seeds
• 12oz / 370g flour
METHOD
1. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
2. Beat in the egg yolks and milk, then add the caraway seeds
3. Sift in the flour through a sieve, folding it in
4. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form and fold these in to the mixture
5. Bake in a cake tin at 180°C (356°F) for 45 minutes to an hour
6. Use a skewer to check it's baked, then rest for 10-15 minutes before turning out of the tin to cool further
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:39 For this recipe, you will need...
01:05 The basic mixture
02:49 Adding the flour
03:52 Adding caraway seeds
04:27 Whisking the egg whites
05:21 Folding in
06:03 Into the baking tin
06:50 Baking the cake
07:10 Serving
Ep.147 Caraway Seed Cake - How To Make An Amazing Aromatic Textured Tea Cake
In this episode we’ll be calling for caraway seeds and sliced almonds to recreate a a delicate and delicious caraway seed cake.
Our recipe will utilise modern baking techniques to produce a subtly flavoured cake unique to the British Isles.
So please sit back, relax and enjoy this episode.
Ingredients (1)
- Eggs x6
- Golden caster sugar 300g
- Butter 350g (2)
- Vanilla 2 tablespoon
- Caraway seeds 5 teaspoons / 10 grams
- Lemon x1
- Self raising flour 300g
- Flaked almonds 120g
(1) This cake was baked in a 25 cm x 10cm cake pan
Bake at 150C fan
(2) Make your own butter (
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Bilbo Baggins' Seed Cake from The Hobbit | In Literature
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Lemon Poppy Seed Pound Cake Recipe
This Lemon and Poppy Seed Pound Cake is a flavorful cake, moist and lemony, great for breakfast time or for coffee/tea break.
To print the recipe check the full recipe on my blog:
Ingredients
Makes about 12 servings
1 3/4 cups (220g) all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp (2g) salt
1 1/2 tsp (6g) baking powder
1/4 tsp (1.5g) baking soda
3 tbsp (30g) poppy seeds
lemon zest of 2 lemons
1/3 cup (75g) butter, softened
3/4 cup (150g) sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp (5g) vanilla extract
1/3 cup (70g) oil
1/2 cup (120g) buttermilk
Lemon Glaze
4 tbsp (60ml) lemon juice
1/4 cup (50g) sugar
1. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). Grease and dust with flour one 9x5in (23x13cm) loaf pan.
2. In a medium bowl whisk flour with salt, baking powder, baking soda, poppy seeds and lemon zest. Set aside until ready to use.
3. In a large bowl mix butter with sugar until combined. Incorporate eggs one at a time . Mix in vanilla extract and oil.
4. Gradually add flour mixture alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan.
5. Bake at 350F (180C) for about 1 hour until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
6. Prepare the lemon glaze. In a small saucepan add sugar and lemon juice. Heat over low-medium heat until sugar dissolves.
7. Use a skewer to poke the pound cake over the top and brush the lemon glaze over the warm pound cake.
8. Let it cool completely before serving.
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How to make Seed Cake
An easy, delicious recipe for Seed Cake - a traditional English tea cake, delicately scented with aromatic caraway seeds. Perfect at any time of day with a good cup of tea, in the traditional English style!
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