The Hobbit; An Unexpected Party; Seed Cake
Whether preparing for an Unexpected Party or simply wanting to reawaken bygone traditions, this seed cake from The Hobbit is your go-to recipe.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 egg whites
- 5 egg yolks
- 250g of butter
- ¼ tsp of rose water
- one shot of brandy
- ¼ of a lemon rind
- 1 ¾ cups of all purpose flour
- ¾ cup of white sugar
- 3 tbsp of caraway seeds
- ¼ cup of candied peel
Instructions
- Take 2 egg whites and 5 egg yolks and beat them together in a mixer.
- Mix in 250g of butter, ¼ tsp of rose water, and one shot of brandy.
- Grate in ¼ of a lemon rind and sift in 1 ¾ cups of all purpose flour, and ¾ cup of white sugar.
- Set your mixer on medium speed for 5-10 minutes until the mixture is fluffy and white.
- Stir in 3 tbsp of caraway seeds and ¼ cup of candied peel.
- Butter a round pan, scoop mixture into a 7″ round cake pan and bake in ‘a quick oven’ (pre-heated oven, ~200C/400F).
- When a wooden skewer is pushed into the middle and comes out clean, the cake is done (45 minutes to 1 hour)
Notes
This Hobbit seed cake recipe was created by deciphering and reducing from ‘English Housewifery Exemplified; In above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery’ by Elizabeth Moxon (printed in 1764) and can be found at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10072