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A Cake without Yeast
Take six pound of ye best butter & work it with your hand 'till it comes to a Cream, pour all the water from it, & take take a pound & half of fine sugar (sifted), & mix with it, put in a Nutmeg & half an ounce of mace beat fine, then mix with it six pounds of fine flour well dry'd, then put in thirty-two Eggs well beaten & strain'd, after this put in a pound of blanch'd Almonds & as much wet Sweetmeats as you think proper, warm a pint of sack & put with the rest, & at last put in Eight pounds Currans, well wash'd, dry'd, & pick'd, take not your hands out of the Cake 'till your Oven is hot, & you put it in your hoop, this Cake will keep a year & not dry, if you don't cut it 'till it's cold
Mrs Freind
To Make Mead
Three gallons of water to one gallon of Honey Two ounces of Hops to eight gallons of Liquor boyl & scum it for three hours, let it cool & tun it, & put into the Cask, a little toast spread with Barm & (if you can get them) thrown in a few Apricot Kernels.
Mrs Swymmer
Tea Cakes
To Half a pound of flour a quarter of a Pound of Butter some sugar & Carraway seeds, the yolks of 2 Eggs. Role them out thin & bake them in a slow oven.

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34 A Cake without Yeast Take six pound of ye best butter & work it with your hand 'till it comes to a Cream, pour all the water from it, & take take a pound & half of fine sugar (sifted), & mix with it, put in a Nutmeg & half an ounce of mace beat fine, then mix with it six pounds of fine flour well dry'd, then put in thirty-two Eggs well beaten & strain'd, after this put in a pound of blanch'd Almonds & as much wet Sweetmeats as you think proper, warm a pint of sack & put with the rest, & at last put in Eight pounds Currans, well wash'd, dry'd, & pick'd, take not your hands out of the Cake 'till your Oven is hot, & you put it in your hoop, this Cake will keep a year & not dry, if you don't cut it 'till it's cold Mrs Freind To Make Mead Three gallons of water to one gallon of Honey Two ounces of Hops to eight gallons of Liquor boyl & scum it for three hours, let it cool & tun it, & put into the Cask, a little toast spread with Barm & (if you can get them) thrown in a few Apricot Kernels. Mrs Swymmer Tea Cakes To Half a pound of flour a quarter of a Pound of Butter some sugar & Carraway seeds, the yolks of 2 Eggs. Role them out thin & bake them in a slow oven.