ANOTHER CAKE
Take three pounds and an half of flower; one penny worth of Cloves and
Mace; and a quarter of a pound of Sugar and Salt, and strew it on the
flower. Then take the yolks of eight Eggs well beaten, with a spoonful and
half of rose water; Then take a pint of thick Cream, and a pound of Butter;
Melt them together, and when it is so, take three quarters of a pint of
Ale-yest, and mingle the yest and Eggs together. Then take the warm liquor,
and mingle all together; when you have done, take all, and pour it in the
bowl, and so cover the flower over the liquor; then cover the pan with a
Napkin, and when it is risen, take four pounds of Currants, well washed and
dryed, and half a pound of Raisins of the Sun sliced, and let them be well
dryed and hot, and so stir them in. When it is risen, have your oven hot
against the Cake is made; let it stand three quarters of an hour. When it
is half baked, Ice it over with fine Sugar and Rose-water, and the whites
of Eggs, and Musk and Ambergreece.
When you mingle your yest and Eggs together for the Cake, put Musk and
Amber to that.
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