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Puddings

To make the best Irish Plumb Cake

take 1 pound of fine flower 1 pound of lump sugar mix the
flower and and sugar together the whites of ten eggs beat to
a very high froth the yolks beat separate one pound of butter
Washed in rose watter and wisk.t till all most cream then mix
it together put a handfull of flower and sugar in at a time
and a spoonfull of the whites and yolks of eggs then put a
pound of currants and floggan of french Brandy butter your
hoops
well and cut some citron and orange pell in those cuts and
put a line of sweet meats and a line of cake send it to the
oven

To Make Gingerbread Chips

Take the end of a lemon and half and let be very thin and cut it
it very small take one pound of treacle a littel ginger a littel
sweet spice half a nutmeg a quarter a pound of brown sugar
Mix it together with the treacle take a pound of flower 6oz butter
1 handfull of caraway seeds mix the butter with the flower then
stir the flower in the treacle a little at a time then put on the
tins littel bits about the size of a nutmeg with a teaspoon

To Make Gingerbread Nuts

3 pound of flower 3 quarters of a pound of sugar 1 ounce and
half of vace ginger pounded and sifted 1 ounce and half of
candid orange peel 2 handfulls of caraway seeds the rind
of one lemon grated half a nutmeg and sweet spice
a pound and half treacle one pound of butter melted in
the treacle mix it well together and let it stand till cooled
and then rol it up in nuts