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
Poppy seed Poppy seed Poppy seed is an oilseed obtained from the poppy ("Papaver somniferum"). The tiny kidney-shaped seeds have been harvested from dried seed pods by various civilizations for thousands of years. It is still widely used in many countries, especially in Central Europe, where it is legally grown and sold in shops. The seeds are used whole or ground into meal as an ingredient in many foods – especially in pastry and bread – and they are pressed to yield poppyseed oil. The poppy seed is mentioned in ancient medical texts from many civilizations. For instance, the Egyptian papyrus scroll