Caraway seed cake cookbooks, including Hannah Glasse's "The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy" (1747) (note that there are recipes for ""cheap seed-cake"" and ""a rich seed-cake, called the nun's cake""), Elizabeth Moxon's "English Housewifery Exemplified" (1764), Amelia Simmons' "American Cookery" (1796), Mary Eaton's "The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary" (1822), and Isabella Beeton's "Book of Household Management" (1861). "Seed cake" and "caraway cake" often have different recipes (see, e.g., recipes number 231 "carraway cake" and number 235 "seed cake" in Elizabeth Moxon's 1764 cookbook, and recipes for "carraway cake" and "seed cake" in Mary Eaton's 1822 cookbook). Caraway seeds
Huangqiao Sesame Cake Huangqiao Sesame Cake Huangqiao sesame cake () is a sesame seed cake that originated from Huangqiao town in Taixing, Jiangsu. It has been speculated to be one of the oldest cakes in the Taizhou region of China. Shapes of the cake include round, elongated, square, oval, bevel-shaped and triangular. In shops, Huangqiao sesame cakes for sale are generally circular and oval, and sweet and salty. Basic ingredients include flour, salt, yeast, caramel, pork suet, onion, sesame, alkali and lard. The liberal use of sesame seeds provides crunchiness and crispness, and gives the cake a golden color. Some cakes include fillings