Ingredients. - Ten ounces of flour. Two ounces of sugar. One teaspoon-ful of baking-powder. One teaspoonful of caraway seeds. Two ounces of clarified dripping. Half a gill of milk. One egg. Salt.

Time required, one hour and a half.

To make a Seed Cake:

1. Take ten ounces of flour and put it in a basin.

2. Mix into the flour one teaspoonful of baking-powder and half a salt-spoonful of salt.

3. Take two ounces of clarified dripping and rub it well into the flour with your hands, until there are no lumps remaining.

4. Add two ounces of powdered sugar and one tea-spoonful of caraway seeds. ,

5. Mix these well together with a wooden spoon.

6. Break one egg into a cup, and beat it up with half a gill of milk.

7. Pour this into the basin, and mix all quickly together into a stiff paste-stiff enough to allow a spoon to stand up in it.

8. Take a cake-tin and grease it inside with a piece of dripping.

9. Pour the mixture into the tin, and put it at once in the oven (the heat should rise to 240°) to bake for one hour.

10. To know when the cake is sufficiently baked, run a clean knife into it; if it comes out perfectly bright and undimmed by steam, the cake is done.

11. Turn the cake out of the tin and stand it on its side, to cool.