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To make a Rich Cake - Mrs Davison

Take half a peck of flour 3 pound of butter, rub it
together 9 pound of Currants 1 pound of Almonds blanched
and shred thin, 1 pound of Naples biscuits grated fine
1 pound of 9 penny sugar a quart of Ale yest 1 quart
of cream half a pint of Sack of Cinnamond
Mace cloves and Nutmegs of each half an ounce
put into the Cake, the Yolks of 12 eggs mix all
the liquid things together

For the Iceing - Take the whites of 3 eggs a pound
and an half of double refin'd sugar, beat it very
fine and sift it in an hair seive, stir it all the
while the Cake is Baking and as soon as it
comes out of the oven spread it on the Cake
and set it in the oven to harden

To make calves foot jelly--Do

Take 2 calves feet, 2 ounces hartshorn 4 Seville
Oranges 1 lemon a qaurt of a pint of sack put to it
5 pints, of water and boiled to 2 quarts a peice of lemon
peel sugar to your taste. And the whites of 6 eggs to
clear it

To make Ratifea Cream - Do

Put 6 leaves of Laurrele to a quart of cream, boil it
till it tastes well of them. And when it is cold put 2
yolks of eggs to it, beat them well Then let it
simmer over the fire to thicken then sweeten it with
fine sugar And when it is cold, put it into the dishes