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Potatoe Bread.
Take 11/2 pints of potatoes 5 eggs a tea cupfull of
butter 1/2 tea cupfull of yeast or 1/2 pt of rich milk
add to these ingredients as much flour as will
make them into a soft loaf, add a little salt & make
it in rolls.

Jally bun.
One teacupfull of rich cream 1 of [drawn] butter &
teacupfull of yeast 5 eggs
a little salt make it in a loaf & set it to rise -
when light bake it in a pan, from 4 to 6 hours is
sufficient to rise it.

Black Cakes
Take 2 lbs of flour 1 of sugar 1 of butter 6 eggs 1 cup
of ginger one cup of rose water 1 pint of molases 1
lb of plumbs or currants with a tea spoonfull
of pearl ash & one nutmeg, Bake it in a large pan

Chocolate Cake.
The whites of 3 eggs 2 ozs of chocolate 1 lb of loaf sugar
well beaten, mix it with the eggs & chocolate after they

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