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Qeens Biscuits
3 lb of flower, 12 ounces of sugar the yolks of 4 Eggs, 4 oz of Butter, mixed well with old milk beat and rolled for one hour & a half and Bake it in a slow oven. 
Mock [Que?]
3/4 of an oz of Isinglass disolved in a Breakfast cup of hot water & when melted run it through a peice of muslin, when it is cool put it into a bowl with as much raspberry or Jelly as will make it sweet add a pint of cream, and whisk it for 20 minutes then put it in a mould which has been rubbed with butter
Colouring for Cream
Cochineal, cream of Tartar & Alum each 1/2 an ounce pound them fine & boil them in two thirds of a pint of water till wasted to half the quantity & strain it through a peice of muslin
To Make Ginger Bread
1 pound of Flower 4 oz of Butter 1 Pound of Treacle 2 oz of carraway seeds 2 oz of powdered Ginger half an oz of Pot Ashes 1 oz of candied Lemon, Bake it in a slow oven three quarters of an hour; pour a wine glass of Brandy on the cake whilest it is hot.

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Qeens Biscuits 3 lb of flower, 12 ounces of sugar the yolks of 4 Eggs, 4 oz of Butter, mixed well with old milk beat and rolled for one hour & a half and Bake it in a slow oven. Mock [Que?] 3/4 of an oz of Isinglass disolved in a Breakfast cup of hot water & when melted run it through a peice of muslin, when it is cool put it into a bowl with as much raspberry or Jelly as will make it sweet add a pint of cream, and whisk it for 20 minutes then put it in a mould which has been rubbed with butter Colouring for Cream Cochineal, cream of Tartar & Alum each 1/2 an ounce pound them fine & boil them in two thirds of a pint of water till wasted to half the quantity & strain it through a peice of muslin To Make Ginger Bread 1 pound of Flower 4 oz of Butter 1 Pound of Treacle 2 oz of carraway seeds 2 oz of powdered Ginger half an oz of Pot Ashes 1 oz of candied Lemon, Bake it in a slow oven three quarters of an hour; pour a wine glass of Brandy on the cake whilest it is hot.