Seed cake?

[Morticia]

UK folks - if you were making a traditional seed cake what would that look like? What seeds would you use? Does anyone have a recipe that's traditional?
(I'm knee deep in Agatha Christie right now.)
I was thinking poppy seeds but the first recipes that came up were for caraway seeds which might make it like my Nana's soda bread but I don't know.

 

[Generic]

http://www.godecookery.com/goderec/grec29.htm

 

[Lee2014]

http://www.godecookery.com/goderec/grec29.htm.

I knew Generic would help you out!

 

[Highlands John]

http://www.godecookery.com/goderec/grec29.htm.

Wow. I'd never even heard of a seed cake.

 

[EmptyNest]

So it is really a bread. Back then they must have called it cake. Just like biscuits are cookies

 

[gillumhouse]

http://www.godecookery.com/goderec/grec29.htm.

Wow. I'd never even heard of a seed cake.
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You need to read more Victorian novels.

 

[Morticia]

Well, not like Nana's as that's a quick bread not a yeast bread.

 

[Flower]

Well, not like Nana's as that's a quick bread not a yeast bread..

Mrs Beeton's cookbook of Household Management! has a recipe for seed cake.
theenglishkitchen.blogspot.com. also talks about such a recipe.