{"id":5079,"date":"2026-04-24T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:03:00","slug":"bible-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2026\/04\/24\/bible-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whist looking in the archives for Christmas Pudding recipes last year<\/a> we came across this recipe for Bible Cake. The recipe was loose in an envelope marked ‘How to make a Bible Cake’, in the Sadborow Cookery Book<\/a>, a late seventeenth, early eighteenth-century cookery book.<\/p>\n

Bible Cake, also known as Scripture Cake or Old Testament Cake, is a kind of puzzle in that the baker is required to know the Bible (or have one to look up references) to discover what ingredients are needed.<\/p>\n

Made and eaten mainly at Christmas, Easter and Weddings it was a very popular cake in the nineteenth century and was often used to teach young girls in Sunday School both baking and Bible verses.<\/p>\n

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D-2161: How to make a Bible Cake<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Although no method is included with the recipe it follows the general rules of cake baking:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Grease a cake tin lightly with butter and line it with some baking parchment.
\n\u2022 Chop up Nahum iii, 12 fine.
\n\u2022 In a mixing bowl cream together Judges V, 25, Jeremiah VI, 20, and I Samuel XIV, 25. Slowly add Jeremiah VI, 20 one at a time and beat to mix.
\n\u2022 Add to this bowl I Samuel XXX, 12, Nahum III, 12 and half of Numbers XVII, 8 and beat until everything is mixed.
\n\u2022 In a large mixing bowl sift together 1 Kings IV, 22, Amos IV, 5 and Chronicles IX, 9, Leviticus II, 13 and make a well in centre
\n\u2022 Pour the first mixing bowl ingredients into the well in the centre of the second mixing bowl, (wet ingredients into the dry ingredients) and stir until a cake batter starts to form.
\n\u2022 Lastly slowly add enough of Judges IV, 19 into the cake batter so it becomes easier to mix, and the mixture will easily drop off the mixing spoon. Pour it into the prepared cake tin.
\n\u2022 Sprinkle over the top the remaining half of Numbers XVII, 9 and gently press them part way into the batter.
\n\u2022 Bake the Cake at 160C\/Gas Mark 3 for 1-1\/2 hours or until done<\/p>\n

You can adapt it however you like otherwise, adding or removing ingredients according to taste.<\/p>\n

And for those of you who do not want to spend time looking up the ingredients in the Bible a \u2018cheats\u2019 sheet was included with the recipe in the envelope:<\/p>\n

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And, importantly proof that the recipe works\u2026<\/p>\n

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Overall it came out quite well and was certainly quite tasty! We’d love to see your efforts if you’d like to follow the recipe above, or hear from you if you have any similar recipes for Bible Cake!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whist looking in the archives for Christmas Pudding recipes last year we came across this recipe for Bible Cake. The recipe was loose in an envelope marked ‘How to make a Bible Cake’, in the Sadborow Cookery Book, a late seventeenth, early eighteenth-century cookery book. Bible Cake, also known as Scripture Cake or Old Testament… Read more Bible Cake<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[82,738,205,737,109],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5084,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/5084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}