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Recipe for Common Seed Cake and Gingerbread Cakes

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for an hour- 2 hours will bake it

A common seed cake
3 lb flour 1 lb Butter 1 lb lisbon sugar
2 table spoonfuls of yeast- a pint of
new & ½ of [of new] milk & carroway
seeds to your liking- dry the flour
& rub ½ lb of Butter into it, warm the
milk & mix the yeast into it- then
strain it into the flour and mix it to-
-gether- then let it stand before a fire
2 hours- then take it up & work in
the [flour] sugar & the half pound of
butter that remains -

Gingerbread Cakes
Take 1½ lb of Butter- I lb of Sugar four large spoonfuls of Milk- stir them over
a gentle fire till it is all melted, pour
it on 2 lbs of Flour & 3 Oz of Ginger,
the rind of one Lemon & half cut very
fine  half an ounce of candied citron
& one ounce of candied orange peel cut
small, mix it until it is partly stiff
& does not stick to your hands-
make them into cakes, bake them in an
oven not so hot as for tarts, and when the
oven is grown cool put them in again to
harden-

Charlotte Starkie

Gillespie Family

1782 to 1808

Gillespie Family

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for an hour- 2 hours will bake it

A common seed cake
3 lb flour 1 lb Butter 1 lb lisbon sugar 2 table spoonfuls of yeast- a pint of new & ½ of new milk & carroway seeds to your liking- dry the flour & rub ½ lb of Butter into it, warm the milk & mix the yeast into it- then strain it into the flour and mix it to-
-gether- then let it stand before a fire2 hours- then take it up & work in the flour sugar & the half pound of butter that remains -

Gingerbread Cakes
Take 1½ lb of Butter- I lb of Sugar four large spoonfuls of Milk- stir them over a gentle fire till it is all melted, pour it on 2 lbs of Flour & 3 oz of Ginger,
the rind of one Lemon & half cut very fine of candied citron & one ounce of candied orange peel cut
small, mix it until it is partly stiff & does not stick to your hands- make them into cakes, bake them in an
oven not so hot as for tarts, and when the oven is grown cool put them in again to harden-