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Diet Bread Twelve eggs, the yolks & whites beaten seperately, to the yolks add a pd of loaf sugar, a glass of rose water or wine, a nutmeg or some mace & a little salt. Have your oven ready & then mix with the whites & yolks one pound of flour as quick as possible & bake it as thick or thin as you please. The oven should be quick - NB - The English is made be adding a little butter melted in the rose water Plumb Cake Take 7 lbs of flour 6 lbs of currants, 3 lbs of butter, 3 lbs of sugar, one quart of yeast, one quart of cream, 1/2 pint of rose water, a glass of sack; let the cream be more than warm then pour in your sack, rose water & yeast, & stir it till it is all of a thickness - then add 1 1/4 ounce of mace, 1 1/4 ounce of nutmegs 1 1/4 ounce of cinnamon - 1 1/4 ounce of Citron, then add 30 eggs well beat, & work in the flour. Last of all, the currants sett it by the fire to rise over night. Bake it in as hot an oven as you would have for bread.
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Diet Bread Twelve eggs, the yolks & whites beaten seperately, to the yolks add a pd of loaf sugar, a glass of rose water or wine, a nutmeg or some mace & a little salt. Have your oven ready & then mix with the whites & yolks one pound of flour as quick as possible & bake it as thick or thin as you please. The oven should be quick - NB - The English is made be adding a little butter melted in the rose water Plumb Cake Take 7 lbs of flour 6 lbs of currants, 3 lbs of butter, 3 lbs of sugar, one quart of yeast, one quart of cream, 1/2 pint of rose water, a glass of sack; let the cream be more than warm then pour in your sack, rose water & yeast, & stir it till it is all of a thickness - then add 1 1/4 ounce of mace, 1 1/4 ounce of nutmegs 1 1/4 ounce of cinnamon - 1 1/4 ounce of Citron, then add 30 eggs well beat, & work in the flour. Last of all, the currants sett it by the fire to rise over night. Bake it in as hot an oven as you would have for bread.
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