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To make an excellent great Cake with plums
Take 7 pound of fine flower & put to it halfe a pound
of fine sugar then breake in 4 pound & a halfe of
butter. rub your butter very well with your hands &
grate into it 2 nutmegs & beat very fine a quarter
of an ounce of mace & cloves together. then put
them into your flower. with 3 or 4 drops of the spirit
of Cinamon then take a pint of Cream warmed
& 8 Eggs leave out 4 of the whites. beat them
very well with a gill of Rosewater. & halfe a gill
of sack & halfe a gill of brandy. then take a quart
of ale yest. mix all these together. then let it stand
before the fire to rise about an houre. then have
[a?] pound of Currans washt & dried before the fire
then take them up & work in your Currans to your
paist. then put in a quarter of a pound of Candid
Lemon & as much oring & 6 ounces of Citteran. & so
put it into your girth & bake it. & if you please you
may [glaze?] it
you may see how to make it on the next leafe

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(207) To make an excellent great Cake with plums Take 7 pound of fine flower & put to it halfe a pound of fine sugar then breake in 4 pound & a halfe of butter. rub your butter very well with your hands & grate into it 2 nutmegs & beat very fine a quarter of an ounce of mace & cloves together. then put them into your flower. with 3 or 4 drops of the spirit of Cinamon then take a pint of Cream warmed & 8 Eggs leave out 4 of the whites. beat them very well with a gill of Rosewater. & halfe a gill of sack & halfe a gill of brandy. then take a quart of ale yest. mix all these together. then let it stand before the fire to rise about an houre. then have [a?] pound of Currans washt & dried before the fire then take them up & work in your Currans to your paist. then put in a quarter of a pound of Candid Lemon & as much oring & 6 ounces of Citteran. & so put it into your girth & bake it. & if you please you may [glaze?] it you may see how to make it on the next leafe