daleaway, I wonder if your seed cake is the one in this original Edmonds - online from Victoria University, click on the plus sign beside Recipes.
There's a really old recipe in there :)
daleaway,
Mar 27, 10:13pm
Haha! Six eggs! I have one, two and three egg recipes but six seems to be- well - over-egging the cake. I have visited this website before, but it was good to be reminded of it. Many thanks. It's left me with a yen now to make Elsie's Fingers - we used to encourage my grandmother to make these as her name was Elsie. Childish humour, don't you love it. And she indulged us, and made them.
elliehen,
Mar 28, 12:12am
My Grandma used to make Bachelor's Buttons - little shortcake cookies rolled in sugar.Must check to see if they're there :)
daleaway,
Mar 28, 1:39am
They sound just like Elsie's Fingers but with a slightly different shape.
Have you noticed in the old cookbooks, with quite a limited range of ingredients, that cutting or moulding things into different shapes was often recommended, and the cause of a change of name!
(Then if you wanted to get really sophisticated you could put sliced tomatoes or eggs on top. Not on Elsie's Digits, of course.)
elliehen,
Mar 28, 2:59am
I sometimes think that that is what some supermarket breadmakers do.make up one big batch of dough and call it ciabatta or bagels or whatever shape takes the fancy ;)
daleaway,
Mar 28, 3:12am
You're so right. Sometimes I think of local bread, if dust had a flavour, this would be it.
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