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Rice Puffs
To a pint of Rice Flour, add salt, a pint of boiling water, 4 eggs well beaten.  Drop a spoonful of the mixture in a pan of boiling fat, as you do in making fritters.
Black Cakes
3 lbs of Butter, 3 of Sugar, beat them to a cream 3 glasses of Brandy, 2 of Rose water, 28 eggs, 3 lbs of Flour, added by degrees, together with 6 lbs of Currants, 6 of Raisins, 1 oz of Cinnamon, 1 oz of Nutmeg, 3/4 of cloves, 1/2 of mace, 1 lb of Citron, mix all well together.  This will make 2 large loaves.  Bake 5 hours.
Sponge Biscuits
Beat the yolks of 12 eggs for 1/2 an hour, then work in 1 1/2 lbs of sugar, whisk it well, till you see it rise in bubbles, then beat the whites to a stiff froth, and whisk them well, add your sugar and yolks, Then add 1 lb of Flour with the rind of 2 lemons grated.  
Butter your tin moulds, put in your [batter] and sift powdered sugar over them; put them in a hot oven but do not stop the mouth at first.  They will take 1/2 hour to bake.

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Rice Puffs To a pint of Rice Flour, add salt, a pint of boiling water, 4 eggs well beaten. Drop a spoonful of the mixture in a pan of boiling fat, as you do in making fritters. Black Cakes 3 lbs of Butter, 3 of Sugar, beat them to a cream 3 glasses of Brandy, 2 of Rose water, 28 eggs, 3 lbs of Flour, added by degrees, together with 6 lbs of Currants, 6 of Raisins, 1 oz of Cinnamon, 1 oz of Nutmeg, 3/4 of cloves, 1/2 of mace, 1 lb of Citron, mix all well together. This will make 2 large loaves. Bake 5 hours. Sponge Biscuits Beat the yolks of 12 eggs for 1/2 an hour, then work in 1 1/2 lbs of sugar, whisk it well, till you see it rise in bubbles, then beat the whites to a stiff froth, and whisk them well, add your sugar and yolks, Then add 1 lb of Flour with the rind of 2 lemons grated. Butter your tin moulds, put in your [batter] and sift powdered sugar over them; put them in a hot oven but do not stop the mouth at first. They will take 1/2 hour to bake.