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Penelope Pemberton cookbook, Dec. 19, 1716
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To Make a seed Cake Take 4 pound of fine flower well drid 3 pound of Lofe suger serst mix ym both together yn take 3 pound & halfe of good buter well washt from salt & 36 eggs Lave out 10 whits work ye eggs & buter well together tel ye buter have drank up all ye eggs: it will take an ouer or more yn put in yr suger & flower by degres but it must be first set by ye fier & put in warme & ceep it beating all ye while very well with a wooden spoone: but when ye eggs and buter is baten put in 6 spoonefolls of orringe flower water in which must be steept an ounce of good sinament stick & taken out agane & for want of oring flower water take brandy: yn put in a quarter of a pound of carway seeds buter yr pan or hope & set it one 3 shets of cap paper ye top buterd one a pie bord put it in: yn with a clane scure prick it to ye botom of ye paper but not through to take a way ye blebs set it in ye oven & Let it stand 3 ouers ye oven not too hott ye say yt maks a liter cake too put in 16 eggs whits & yolk: in yr rome of 36 lave out 16 whits good friday buns 1 pd corons: 2 pd flower - quarter pd butter quarter pd powder suger: barme
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To Make a seed Cake Take 4 pound of fine flower well drid 3 pound of Lofe suger serst mix ym both together yn take 3 pound & halfe of good buter well washt from salt & 36 eggs Lave out 10 whits work ye eggs & buter well together tel ye buter have drank up all ye eggs: it will take an ouer or more yn put in yr suger & flower by degres but it must be first set by ye fier & put in warme & ceep it beating all ye while very well with a wooden spoone: but when ye eggs and buter is baten put in 6 spoonefolls of orringe flower water in which must be steept an ounce of good sinament stick & taken out agane & for want of oring flower water take brandy: yn put in a quarter of a pound of carway seeds buter yr pan or hope & set it one 3 shets of cap paper ye top buterd one a pie bord put it in: yn with a clane scure prick it to ye botom of ye paper but not through to take a way ye blebs set it in ye oven & Let it stand 3 ouers ye oven not too hott ye say yt maks a liter cake too put in 16 eggs whits & yolk: in yr rome of 36 lave out 16 whits good friday buns 1 pd corons: 2 pd flower - quarter pd butter quarter pd powder suger: barme
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