Then to Ice it, take a pound and half of
double refined Sugar beaten and searsed; The whites of three Eggs new-laid,
and a little Orange-flower-water, with a little musk and Ambergreece,
beaten and searsed, and put to your sugar; Then strew your Sugar into the
Eggs, and beat it in a stone Mortar with a Woodden Pestel, till it be as
white as snow, which will be by that time the Cake is baked; Then draw it
to the ovens mouth, and drop it on, in what form you will; let it stand a
little again in the oven to harden.
TO MAKE AN EXCELLENT CAKE
To a Peck of fine flower, take six pounds of fresh butter, which must be
tenderly melted, ten pounds of Currants, of Cloves and Mace, half an ounce
of each, an ounce of Cinnamon, half an ounce of Nutmegs, four ounces of
Sugar, one pint of Sack mixed with a quart at least of thick barm of Ale
(as soon as it is settled, to have the thick fall to the bottom, which will
be, when it is about two days old) half a pint of Rose-water; half a
quarter of an ounce of Saffron. Then make your paste, strewing the spices,
finely beaten, upon the flower: Then put the melted butter (but even just
melted) to it; then the barm, and other liquors: and put it into the oven
well heated presently.
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