Victorian Seed Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
14-16
ingredients
- cake
- 1⁄2 cup poppy seed
- 1⁄2 cup milk
- 3⁄4 lb unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1⁄2 cups granulated sugar, divided
- 2 tablespoons lime zest, grated
- 1 tablespoon orange zest, grated
- 8 eggs, separated
- 2 cups cake flour, sifted
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- syrup
- 1⁄4 cup fresh lime juice
- 1⁄4 cup fresh orange juice
- 1⁄3 cup superfine sugar
directions
- Soak poppy seeds in milk for 4 hours (or over-night) then rinse under cold running water; drain well.
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease and flour a Bundt pan or 10-inch tube pan.
- Cream the butter and gradually add 1 1/4 cups of the sugar.
- Beat in the zests and the poppy seeds.
- Add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Continue beating for about 5 minutes, until the mixture if very light and creamy.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. Add the remaining 1/4 cup sugar and beat until peaks are stiff, but not dry.
- Sift the flour and salt over the egg yolk mixture, one third at a time, folding in after each addition.
- Gently fold in about 1/4 of the egg whites into the batter, then fold in remaining whites, blending gently but thoroughly.
- Pour batter carefully into the prepared pan.
- Bake one hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean when tested in the center.
- Make syrup while cake bakes: Combine juices with sugar and heat until sugar is completely dissolved; cool slightly.
- Immediately after removing cake from the oven, pierce the top all over with a thin skewer.
- Pour the citrus syrup all over the top to cover completely.
- Cool cake in the pan to allow syrup to be absorbed completely.
- Remove cake from pan and serve.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Lise in Indiana
Otterbein, IN
<p>I've been a farm wife for more than 30 years, driving tractors and semi-trucks, and raising corn, soybeans, beef cows, and 4 daughters. We are going against big farm trends and diversifying (rather than specializing), adding laying hens, honey bees and milk goats to our farm. I have too many interests, but especially love artistic pursuits, such as pottery, painting, music, gardening,and creative cooking.</p>