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Soda Cake - Elizabeth Marrcotth
Take 1 lb: of Flour - rub into it 1/4 lb: of Butter - 6 oz: of finely powdered sugar. 1/2 lb of Currants - well dried - Mix altogether. Then take 4 eggs, beat the yokes & whites separately. Dissolve one teaspoonful of carbonate of Soda, in half a tea cup full of cream or milk- Stir in these with the above - beat altogether for 5 minutes- Butter & paper a mould & bake it in a quick oven for 1 hour & 3/4
French Mode of Making Coffee - M. Lozon.
Allow a desert spoonfull of coffee to each person. Put into your coffee pot as many coffee cups of cold water as there are persons & one over to admit of the waste in boiling. Stir in each spoonful of Coffee separately then boil it quickly up twice, & when boiling the last time, pour on it one cup full of cold water, let it away to stand till the next day, then pour it through a piece of flannel, & warm it for use. 
Gravy for grause Bathampton
1 Pint of good rich Beef gravy & Garlic & shallot a few whole pepper a little bit of Mace a little cinnamon and salt

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Soda Cake - Elizabeth Marrcotth Take 1 lb: of Flour - rub into it 1/4 lb: of Butter - 6 oz: of finely powdered sugar. 1/2 lb of Currants - well dried - Mix altogether. Then take 4 eggs, beat the yokes & whites separately. Dissolve one teaspoonful of carbonate of Soda, in half a tea cup full of cream or milk- Stir in these with the above - beat altogether for 5 minutes- Butter & paper a mould & bake it in a quick oven for 1 hour & 3/4 French Mode of Making Coffee - M. Lozon. Allow a desert spoonfull of coffee to each person. Put into your coffee pot as many coffee cups of cold water as there are persons & one over to admit of the waste in boiling. Stir in each spoonful of Coffee separately then boil it quickly up twice, & when boiling the last time, pour on it one cup full of cold water, let it away to stand till the next day, then pour it through a piece of flannel, & warm it for use. Gravy for grause Bathampton 1 Pint of good rich Beef gravy & Garlic & shallot a few whole pepper a little bit of Mace a little cinnamon and salt