When I first wrote the prologue scene between Laura and Sol in Lady Wynwood’s Spies, volume 1: Archer , I threw in that bit about Sol’s favorite seed cakes just on a whim. I had looked up different pastries in an old 1800 cookbook and chose those at random. However, I got a lot of mileage out of those seed cakes. Sol mentioned his fondness for seed cakes in The Gentleman Thief , and the seed cakes showed up again for a team meeting in Lady Wynwood’s Spies, volume 3: Aggressor . I found a Regency-era recipe for Pound Seed Cakes , which I thought were exactly like the cakes that Laura’s cook makes for the team meeting in book 3 of my series. But I also wanted to find a recipe that was unusual enough that my character Sol would consider it his favorite, and so I tried the Rich Seed Cake recipe from the same book. The recipe is on page 114 of a book published in 1800, The Complete Confectioner; or, Housekeeper’s Guide by Mrs. H. Glass and Maria Wilson. If you click on the link, you