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a Switch Cake - Mrs. Beckwith - Half a pound of Butter beat to a cream, to which add half a pound of raw sugar, then work into the sugar & Butter, one pound & two ounces of fine flower, the paste being very stiff it must be moulded into the shape required bake it in a slow oven, cover the cake with coloured comfits - Hard Biscuits Beat one pound of sugar with 6 Eggs half an hour then add one pound of Flour, & the rind of one Lemon Drop them on Paper & Bake them in a slow oven - Curds - Take a quart of milk put it on the fire untill it boils & when boling add a pint of Butter milk with two Eggs, let it stand a little in the pan & then put it on a sive & afterwards through the tube - Apricot Spunge - 1 pint of cream, sweeten to your taste, add to it the pulp of Apricot, and a small quantity of Lemon whish it till it be comes thick then add 3/4 of an ounce of Isinglass desolved in a little water, then whisk all well together till stiff enough to run into the mould which do by degrees, putting in peices of Apricots to ornament the sides of the mould, let it stand all night in a cool place -
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a Switch Cake - Mrs. Beckwith - Half a pound of Butter beat to a cream, to which add half a pound of raw sugar, then work into the sugar & Butter, one pound & two ounces of fine flower, the paste being very stiff it must be moulded into the shape required bake it in a slow oven, cover the cake with coloured comfits - Hard Biscuits Beat one pound of sugar with 6 Eggs half an hour then add one pound of Flour, & the rind of one Lemon Drop them on Paper & Bake them in a slow oven - Curds - Take a quart of milk put it on the fire untill it boils & when boling add a pint of Butter milk with two Eggs, let it stand a little in the pan & then put it on a sive & afterwards through the tube - Apricot Spunge - 1 pint of cream, sweeten to your taste, add to it the pulp of Apricot, and a small quantity of Lemon whish it till it be comes thick then add 3/4 of an ounce of Isinglass desolved in a little water, then whisk all well together till stiff enough to run into the mould which do by degrees, putting in peices of Apricots to ornament the sides of the mould, let it stand all night in a cool place -
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