Appearing in The New Practice of Cookery, Pastry, Baking and Preserving (1804) this recipe for seed cakes seems to preference caraway seeds which is more of a traditional seed cake that became popular in the Victorian era to serve with tea.
A recipe for Mrs. Beeton’s Victorian Seed Cake: https://www.food.com/recipe/mrs-beetons-victorian-seed-cake-a-very-good-seed-cake-286398
