Seed cake?

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 said:

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

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I knew Generic would help you out!

Generic said:

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

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

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

Highlands John said:

Generic said:

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

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

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

Morticia said:

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

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