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An Exellent Cake 
Take 4 pounds of y.e best fine flower dry it well by y.e fire& sift it y.n. Take 5 pounds of best currands well picked & dryed rubed but not washad 5 pounds of good butter washed & beaten in orange flower watter two pounds of Almonds blanched beaten with orange flower water & Sack 4 pounds of eggs weighted two pounds of which with only yolks of y.e other 2 pounds w.t yolks & whights 3 pounds of doble refined Suger Sifted a quarter of an ounce of cloves as much mace & 3 nutmegs all beaten & Sifted canded orange limon & sittron as you think fit but it takes a good deal dont cut it too Small you must beat y.e butter w.t your hands till it be a Cream before Eny of y.e ingredients be put in y.n work in y.e flower by a little at a time & to all y.e things put in a quarter of a pint of y.e best fresh brandy you must never live working of it  till you put it in to y.e hoope & y.n clap it in to a preaty hot oven but not to burn it it may stand & take 4 hours take care to Stick in y.e hoope Either paist bord or 5 or 6 Sheets of good thick paper.

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An Exellent Cake Take 4 pounds of y.e best fine flower dry it well by y.e fire& sift it y.n. Take 5 pounds of best currands well picked & dryed rubed but not washad 5 pounds of good butter washed & beaten in orange flower watter two pounds of Almonds blanched beaten with orange flower water & Sack 4 pounds of eggs weighted two pounds of which with only yolks of y.e other 2 pounds w.t yolks & whights 3 pounds of doble refined Suger Sifted a quarter of an ounce of cloves as much mace & 3 nutmegs all beaten & Sifted canded orange limon & sittron as you think fit but it takes a good deal dont cut it too Small you must beat y.e butter w.t your hands till it be a Cream before Eny of y.e ingredients be put in y.n work in y.e flower by a little at a time & to all y.e things put in a quarter of a pint of y.e best fresh brandy you must never live working of it till you put it in to y.e hoope & y.n clap it in to a preaty hot oven but not to burn it it may stand & take 4 hours take care to Stick in y.e hoope Either paist bord or 5 or 6 Sheets of good thick paper.