Name: Caraway seed cake
Yield: For 6-8 people
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: flour, for dusting; 250 g (9 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour; 1 tbsp caraway seeds and/or 2 tbsp mukhwas; 4 eggs; 200 g (7 oz) butter, at room temperature; 200 g (7 oz) caster (superfine) sugar; butter, for greasing; 1 tbsp baking powder

Preparation info

For
6-8
people

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Oats in the North, Wheat from the South

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

About

Caraway seed was a very popular addition to British baking in the past. Nowadays, however, it is a taste we usually associate with Scandinavia. Around 1900, May Byron gave regional recipes for seed cakes from Gloucestershire, Cheshire, Kent, Yorkshire and Ireland, but we know from other books that seed cake was also very popular in Cornwall. Old recipes also say to add caraway comfits. These are caraway seeds that have been given a white sugar coating, a tedious task that t