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To make a fine Cake - Mrs Cooks
Take apound of Butter & beat it well with your
hand - Six Egg - three Spoonfull of Barm
a little Sack - three Spoonfulls of Rose water
a pound of Sugar & a pound of fine flower & apound
of Currants, what Spices you please. Bake it
well with a little fine Sugar upon it.

2 ounces of Lemon & 2 ounces of Cittron

NB you may if you please, add four ounces
of Blanch'd almonds cut into thin slices, & what
Sweet meats you please

Sally Lunn Cakes
Take a pint of Cream, put a piece of Butter of the size of a Walnut [&?]
put it on the Fire & make it blood warm. Take the yokes of three eggs beaten
up light, put a large Spoonfull & a half of yeast well water'd from the night
before, mix all yr foregoing articles together with a little salt & strain it
through a Sieve. Mix with it as much Flour as will make a stiff dough let it
Stand 2 hours to rise, then role out of it 2 Cakes the Size of a Large plate
which when baked will be about 3 inches thick or near it but [?] not
be larger - [?] & [?] when Baked split them in three & butter em very well

Mr George Masons Receipt
Beat the White of an Egg very well : put it the a Quart of
years in a large Pan : pour two Quarts of Water on it
Whisk it well together, Cover it over, let it stand all night :
pour off your Water and your Yest will be sweet.

To make Yorkshire Cakes, Mrs [Plumpbee?]
take two pd of Flour three ounces of Butter, the yolks of two Eggs, three
Spoonfulls of Barm thats not bitter, melt yr Butter in half a pint of warm
milk, then mix them all well together & let it stand by the Fire half an
Hour to rise then role them into Cakes pretty thin, & set them a quarter of
an hour more to yr Fire to rise. Bake them upon Tins in a moderate
Oven, you tost & Butter them as you do Muffins