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To make Milk Punch my own M.H.

To a gallon of Brandy, put a gallon of milk, and a gallon
of spring water, 2 dozen of large lemons, a pound or more of simple
loaft sugar 4 or 5 Nutmegs grated, pair your lemons very
thin, and steep 'em in your brandy all night, then squeeze
your Lemons very well and mix all together in an earthen
vessele Then hang your Flannele bagg up and put it
in to run keep putting it up till it is as fine as rock
water

Put your Milk to it boiling hot- Cover it close till
it is cold. Then run it oft

Rx 2 pounds of Oats - 5 quarts of water_ 2 hand fulls of
wild endift leaves. Boil together the space of an hour upon
a little fire - after that you must take an ounce of
Cristale Minerall, and 3 oz^s honey, then boil it altogether
the space of half an hour

To make a Seed Cake Miss Chapple

Take 3 pounds of flour well dry'd - put in it a Nutmeg
grated, and a quarter of an oz of cloves and mace finely
beaten - a little salt. Then rub in a pound an half of butter
and put in a pint of Ale yeast, a pint of Cream just warmed
6 eggs, beat them with two spoonfulls of sack and as much
rose water a pound of Sugar and 2 oz^s Carraway seeds, mingle it
together and handle it as little as may be- Set it before the
fire to rise for half an hour, put it in an hoop - Three quarters
of an hour bakes it - [illegible] It must be but a quarter of an
ounce of cloves and mace together

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