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Biscuits.

5 oz. white pounded Sugar. 2 oz. Butter, 1/2 oz. Ginger
or Caraway Seeds + 1/2 lb Flour: Mix together, roll out
+ cut small biscuits, then bake them in a slow oven.

Parliament

4 lbs Flour, a breakfast cup of Treacle 1/2 lb of butter
Mix the butter + flour well, then work it up with
Treacle into a paste, roll it out thin + cut it into
squares. Sprinkle the tins with flour, this will make
six dozen.

To Boil Rice.

Put the rice into boiling water, with some fire on the
lid of the Pot, boil it 1/4 of an hour, pour off the greater
part of the water, then add about a pint of cold water
pour it off again immediately very dry, set the pan
by the fire till required + the rice will be quite dry.