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To Make A Seed Cake
take 10 pound of flower put in a a boule put to it one ounce and half of mack beat and leached two grains
of mush and as much Ambergrease then take the yolks of 30 eggs and the whites of 15 beat them very well and put to them 2 quarts of ale yast set a quart of good creame in a good bigg shellet upon the fire put to it 5 pound of fresh butter squeezing the water well out let it melt but not boyle take it of the fire and let it stand till be something more then new milk warm then put 10 spoonfulle of rose water put all this to the east and eggs then pour all through a hair sieve then put in the flower and mingle it like a pudding with your hands and set it before the fire till it rise a little then put in 3 pound of rough carraways and 2 of smooth and half a pound of bisket then have the hoop ready and let it stand till the oven will not scorch it and a hours will bake.
To Make a Plum Cake
Take 6 pounds of flower and a quart of cream and a pound of butter and a pound of sugar a quarter of an ounce of mace 3 nutmegs a pint of east 6 eggs the whites of one spoonfull of rose water 6 spoonfulls of sack temper all them together very stuff cover it up and then take 6 pound of currants or [illegible] in a dish and when the paste is risen put in your currants by degrees let stand one hour in the open

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To Make A Seed Cake take 10 pound of flower put in a a boule put to it one ounce and half of mack beat and leached two grains of mush and as much Ambergrease then take the yolks of 30 eggs and the whites of 15 beat them very well and put to them 2 quarts of ale yast set a quart of good creame in a good bigg shellet upon the fire put to it 5 pound of fresh butter squeezing the water well out let it melt but not boyle take it of the fire and let it stand till be something more then new milk warm then put 10 spoonfulle of rose water put all this to the east and eggs then pour all through a hair sieve then put in the flower and mingle it like a pudding with your hands and set it before the fire till it rise a little then put in 3 pound of rough carraways and 2 of smooth and half a pound of bisket then have the hoop ready and let it stand till the oven will not scorch it and a hours will bake. To Make a Plum Cake Take 6 pounds of flower and a quart of cream and a pound of butter and a pound of sugar a quarter of an ounce of mace 3 nutmegs a pint of east 6 eggs the whites of one spoonfull of rose water 6 spoonfulls of sack temper all them together very stuff cover it up and then take 6 pound of currants or [illegible] in a dish and when the paste is risen put in your currants by degrees let stand one hour in the open