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Seed Cakes

INGREDIENTS for 2 dozen cakes. lb. of butter, lb. of sugar, 1 teacupful of milk, 1 tablespoonful of caraway seeds, 1/4 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, 4 eggs, a little salt, flour. AVERAGE Cost, 1s. 3d.

Beat the eggs well, add to them the sugar, the soda, dissolved in a little milk, then the remainder of the milk and the carawayseeds; add gradually the flour till the paste SEED CAKE. is sufficiently stiff to roll out and cut into cakes. Stamp them out, or put spoonfuls of this mixture into buttered patty-pans, and bake in a quick oven.

TIME. To bake the cakes, from 10 to 15 minutes.

SEASONABLE at any time.

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