For the better baking of it, put it in a hoop, and
let it stand in the oven one hour and half. You Ice the Cake with the
whites of two Eggs, a small quantity of Rose-water, and some Sugar.
TO MAKE BISKET
To half a peck of flower, take three spoonfuls of barm, two ounces of
seeds; Aniseeds or Fennel-seeds. Make the paste very stiff, with nothing
but water, and dry it (they must not have so much heat, as to make them
rise, but only dry by degrees; as in an oven after Manchet is taken out, or
a gentle stove) in flat Cakes very well in an oven or stove.
TO MAKE A CARAWAY-CAKE
Take three pound and a half of the finest flower and dry it in an oven; one
pound and a half of sweet butter, and mix it with the flower, until it be
crumbled very small, that none of it be seen; Then take three quarters of a
pint of new Ale-yeast, and half a pint of Sack, and half a pint of new
milk; six spoonfuls of Rose-water, four yolks, and two whites of Eggs; Then
let it lie before the fire half an hour or more. And when you go to make it
up, put in three quarters of a pound of Caraway-Confits, and a pound and
half of biskets.
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