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Sugar is quite dissolved but must not boil then
take it off y[ou]r fire & put it into your [?] cake glasses
& set it into a stove for 3 days then turn them out of y[ou]r
glasses upon [flult] glasses & set them into y[ou]r stove till
they are candyd a top then warm the back proof your
glasses & slip them off on clean paper y[ou]r canded side norot
y[ou]r paper & put y[ou]r paper on a sied till they are canded
On y[ou]r other side then put them up in papers so you
may do apricots or any other sort of plums

Plum Cake
Take 7 pints of flower 6 p[oun]d of curans[currants] half a p[oun]d of fine
sugar one ounce of mace 2 nutmegs put your spices & sugar
through a hare sive take 22 eggs half y[ou]r whights 2 p[oun]ds & half
of butter one pint of crame put y[ou]r cream & butter into
a close pot & set y[ou]r pot in a soclot of water over y[ou]r fire
till it is a little more than warm then beat your eggs
well & put then into a pint of barm through a hare sive
& then your cream & butter mix it well set it to y[ou]r fire to rise for
half an hour having your currans washed picked & dryed
by y[ou]r fire then have your butter & y[ou]r oven hot mix in your
currans & put it in y[ou]r oven bake it near 2 hours

To pickle Concumbers

Take your concumbers before they are too ripe pare them
& slise them as you do for present eating only a little thicker
to a dozen of cucumber slise 2 onions put them in a large
dish & stiron & good deal of salt upon them let them stand 24
hours then drain them as free from y[ou]r liquor as you can then
take 2 quarts of y[ou]r best vinegar & boil it with pepper or
what other spice you like till it coms to 3 pints let it stand
till it is quite cold & then pour it upon y[ou]r cucumbers & stop
it close before y[ou]r glass or pot be very befor dry you put them in

Elder Wine

Take 20 p[oun]d of Malays rasons pick rub & chop them then put them
into a tub with 20 quarts of water let them stand 10 days
stiring them twice a day then stand y[ou]r liquor from them
& put to it 9 pints of y[ou]r juce of elder and one of damsons
& 3 p[oun]d of loaf sugar turn them into a barrel & let it stand