BMEM '08: Bilbo's Seed Cake Recipe
Mar. 6th, 2008 09:34 pm"A little beer would suit me better, if it is all the same to you, my good sir," said Balin with the white beard. "But I don't mind some cake--seed-cake, if you have any."
"Lots!" Bilbo found himself answering, to his own surprise; and he found himself scuttling off, too, to the cellar to fill a pint beer-mug, and to the pantry to fetch two beautiful round seed-cakes which he had baked that afternoon for his after-supper morsel.
--An Unexpected Party, The Hobbit
( Seed Cake Recipe from The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea )
"Lots!" Bilbo found himself answering, to his own surprise; and he found himself scuttling off, too, to the cellar to fill a pint beer-mug, and to the pantry to fetch two beautiful round seed-cakes which he had baked that afternoon for his after-supper morsel.
--An Unexpected Party, The Hobbit
( Seed Cake Recipe from The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea )