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So interesting, make me wonder if there any muster / election cake recipes in the UK

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Great question! I don't know about how the cake's ancestors worked in the UK, but I found this sentence in the book "Cake: A Global History" by Nicola Humble. "It is a form of yeast-raised 'great cake' brought to America in the 17th century by English settlers."

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Wow! Loved the description of making yeast!

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Truly nuts, isn't it? Baking was not simple before the many conveniences of ingredients & equipment we enjoy.

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Nov 4Liked by Amy Halloran

Thank you as always for sharing history through bread and baking. May we be eating celebration cake by the end of this week.

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Hear, hear!!

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Nov 4Liked by Amy Halloran

I love this! Thank-you!

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You are very welcome Nancy dear!!!

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Nov 4Liked by Amy Halloran

Brilliant! I once made my grandmothers coffee cake recipe. She’d written it on the inside cover of one of her well worn church cookbooks. Everything had amounts except flour. It just said “flour.” Luckily she was still around at that time so I asked her and she just went by feel every time. If you do it enough I guess you just have a sense!

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Oh I’d love to see that recipe! So glad she was around to tell you!

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