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Rich Plumb Cake
Take a quarter or 12 pounds of fine flower well dryed, in a pound of currants, 2 pounds of raisons stoned and cut small one pound and half of sugar dryed, and a pound of almonds blanch'd and beaten with sack or orange flower water, a quart of ale yest one ounce of cinamon, one ounce of cloves, and mace, together 4 largenutt-meggs 6 ounces of cittern 2 of orange peels, candied, 2 ounces of apricok chips, one quart of sweet cream 20 eggs, 10 whites 4 pounds of good fresh butter rubbed in with your hands, mix the butter, spice sugar, almonds, and a little sack together before you put in the cream and strain it, the yest and eggs well beaten together add a pint of sack or more in a glass of it, and dissolve it into 3 or 4 grams of musk and one of amborgreese with the rest of the sack in a large dish over the fire, plump the currants in orange flower water, and strain them with one pound or more of the chipps of french bread finely dryed and beaton to a powder and well steeped, work it up near the fire, let your hands be never out till its in the hoop, keeping it continually stiring, it ought not to be thicker than a pudding, when in the hoop set it presently in to the oven, butter the hoop, about 2 hours and half will bake it - for the icing take a little orange flower water or rose water mixt put to it a pound of loafe sugar double refin'd, finely beaten and sarch'd mix it well together than then the whites of eggs very well, and take of the froth as it rises, and put to the sugar and water mix it well together, then spread it on the cake with a feather, after it is baked and drawn out of the oven wipe it with a clean cloth that none of the scorched plumbs may hang on then set it in the oven for a little space the oven lid being down grind into the sugar 5 or 6 musk plumbs they will perfume it.
Excellent Plumbe Cake.
Take 7 pounds of flower 7 pounds of currants one of raisons of the sun stoned and cut very small, a pound of almonds beaton very fine with a little orange flower water, to keep them from olying, with half a pound of orange lemmon, and cittern peel sliced thin, in a pound of sugar, 6 penny worth of cloves mace and nutt-megg together, half a pint of sack, 2 penny worth or orange flower water 15 eggs, half the whites 3 pins of milk 2 pound and half of butter, and you may put in musk and amorgreese if you like it, with a quart of good ale yest, dry your flower very well, and put in the ingredients and the fruit last of all, then beat it half an hour with

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Rich Plumb Cake Take a quarter or 12 pounds of fine flower well dryed, in a pound of currants, 2 pounds of raisons stoned and cut small one pound and half of sugar dryed, and a pound of almonds blanch'd and beaten with sack or orange flower water, a quart of ale yest one ounce of cinamon, one ounce of cloves, and mace, together 4 largenutt-meggs 6 ounces of cittern 2 of orange peels, candied, 2 ounces of apricok chips, one quart of sweet cream 20 eggs, 10 whites 4 pounds of good fresh butter rubbed in with your hands, mix the butter, spice sugar, almonds, and a little sack together before you put in the cream and strain it, the yest and eggs well beaten together add a pint of sack or more in a glass of it, and dissolve it into 3 or 4 grams of musk and one of amborgreese with the rest of the sack in a large dish over the fire, plump the currants in orange flower water, and strain them with one pound or more of the chipps of french bread finely dryed and beaton to a powder and well steeped, work it up near the fire, let your hands be never out till its in the hoop, keeping it continually stiring, it ought not to be thicker than a pudding, when in the hoop set it presently in to the oven, butter the hoop, about 2 hours and half will bake it - for the icing take a little orange flower water or rose water mixt put to it a pound of loafe sugar double refin'd, finely beaten and sarch'd mix it well together than then the whites of eggs very well, and take of the froth as it rises, and put to the sugar and water mix it well together, then spread it on the cake with a feather, after it is baked and drawn out of the oven wipe it with a clean cloth that none of the scorched plumbs may hang on then set it in the oven for a little space the oven lid being down grind into the sugar 5 or 6 musk plumbs they will perfume it. Excellent Plumbe Cake. Take 7 pounds of flower 7 pounds of currants one of raisons of the sun stoned and cut very small, a pound of almonds beaton very fine with a little orange flower water, to keep them from olying, with half a pound of orange lemmon, and cittern peel sliced thin, in a pound of sugar, 6 penny worth of cloves mace and nutt-megg together, half a pint of sack, 2 penny worth or orange flower water 15 eggs, half the whites 3 pins of milk 2 pound and half of butter, and you may put in musk and amorgreese if you like it, with a quart of good ale yest, dry your flower very well, and put in the ingredients and the fruit last of all, then beat it half an hour with