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Penelope Pemberton cookbook, Dec. 19, 1716

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yu plase yu may put in canded orringe & Lemon sittron or olmons or both buter yr pan yn bake it Light Ginger bread cake Take a pound of flower a pound of trackle 2 spoonefoll of browne suger about a quarter of a pound of buter melted & taken from ye dros 4 or 5 spoonefolls of warme Ale ginger & caraway seeds to yr tast a litle brandy if yu plase all mixt & beaten very well with a slise for a quarter or halfe an ouer yn may if yu plase put in 2 or 3 spoonefolls of barme & slist candid Lemon & orringe: buter yr tin or pot & set it in ye oven flat gingerbread cake Take a pound of trackle & 1/2 a pound of suger 1 penyworth of carway seeds & of caryander seeds ginger to yr tast about 6 ounces of buter 2 or 3 ounses of canded Lemon cut in peeses: a litle brandy put into ye trackl by degres: rub ye buter into as much flower as yu think ye trackle will take up first mix before ye buter yr suger & ginger yn rube in ye buter yn strowe in ye seeds yn make a hole in ye flower put in ye trakle & work it very well in tel it be prity stife & smoth buter a duble white paper very well role it out to be about as thick as yr finger
 
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