Risen Seed Cake.
1 pound of flour.
½ pound of butter.
¾ pound powdered sugar.
½ cup good yeast.
4 table-spoonfuls cream.
Nutmeg.
A pinch of soda, dissolved in hot water.
2 table-spoonfuls carraway seed.
¼ pound of citron shred very small.
Mix flour, cream, half the butter (melted) and the yeast together; work up very well and set to rise for six hours. When very light, work in the rest of the butter rubbed to a cream with the sugar, the soda-water, and when these ingredients are thoroughly incorporated, the seed and citron. Let it rise three-quarters of an hour longer—until it almost fills the pans—and bake steadily half an hour if you have put it in small pans, an hour, if it is in large loaves. This is a German cake.