seed-cakes

In the many vintage cookbooks I have read I found different versions of seed-cakes, some rather plain, made with a yeasted and sweetened dough and others closer to pound cakes, very sweet and rich in eggs and butter.

Seed-Cake (Novel Food, Fall ‘08 edition) « Baking History 2008

In the many vintage cookbooks I have read I found different versions of seed-cakes, some rather plain, made with a yeasted and sweetened dough and others closer to pound cakes, very sweet and rich in eggs and butter.

2008 September « Baking History 2008

At other times, seed-cakes, wafers, and other light confections.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

After the love-feast was a short intermission, during which a luncheon of seed-cakes, comfits and doughnuts were eaten as a preparation for the after service.

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

Besides the milk, some very nice seed-cakes in the shape of hearts were produced, and Edith thought them the most delightful little cakes she had ever tasted.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

I shall never forget the ludicrous adventures of a dandified New Yorker who came out into the yard to feed bruin on seed-cakes, and did not feed him fast enough.

The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Various

The dandy made haste to help bruin to the last of the seed-cakes, and escaped without injury, but in a ridiculous plight, -- his hat smashed, his necktie and linen rumpled, and his watch dangling; but his fright was the most laughable part of all.

The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Various

A big jug of coffee bad just been set in the hearth, the seed-cakes were gone, and the dwarves were starting on a round of buttered scones, when there came-a loud knock.

The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938

The old hound, dreaming of flies, flapped his long ears in the sunshine, and a robin, hopping warily toward a plate of seed-cakes on the arm of

The Miller Of Old Church Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

Molly declared she would have a little pen, and put Boo in it, as the prize fat boy -- a threat which so alarmed the innocent that he ran away, ani was ~ouncl two or three miles prom borne, asleep under the wall, with two seed-cakes and a pair of socks done up in a bundle.

Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902