TO MAKE A PLUMB-CAKE
Take a peck of flower, and put it in half. Then take two quarts of good
Ale-yest, and strain it into half the flower, and some new milk boiled, and
almost cold again; make it into a very light paste, and set it before the
fire to rise; Then take five pound of Butter, and melt it in a skillet,
with a quarter of a pint of Rose-water; when your paste is risen, and your
oven almost hot, which will be by this time, take your paste from the fire,
and break it into small pieces, and take your other part of flower, and
strew it round your paste; Then take the melted Butter, and put it to the
past, and by degrees work the paste and flower together, till you have
mingled all very well. Take six Nutmegs, some Cinnamon and Mace well
beaten, and two pound of Sugar, and strew it into the Paste, as they are a
working it. Take three pounds of Raisins stoned, and twelve pounds of
Currants very well washed and dryed again; one pound of Dates sliced; half
a pound of green Citron dryed and sliced very thin; strew all these into
the paste, till it have received them all; Then let your oven be ready, and
make up your Cake, and set it into the oven; but you must have a great
care, it doth not take cold.
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