Exceptionally good seed cake

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Whisper of Cardamom

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2024

  • About

A pleasingly old-fashioned, barely sweet cake. So old-fashioned in fact that it has been around since medieval times, gratifying the English for centuries with the herbal-liquorice hint from caraway seeds that give it its name. Mrs Beeton, Victorian cooking doyenne, had no less than four seed cake recipes in her cookbook, including a ‘Common Seed Cake’ and a