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into the sauce keep the pan shaking tile [until] they are quite hot + dish them up -

Shrewsbury Cake To 1 lb of flour 3 1/2 lbs of sugar 2 of butter a little mace & nutmeg 3 eggs mix them together in a paste If the butter is not sufficient to mix it up add as much cream as is necesary. Dont make it too stiff a paste. Roll it out cut it with a glas or canister lip + bake them quick, let them be coloured as little as posible in baking, but let them be crisp.

Jumbles Take 1 lb of flour 1/2 lb of butter 1/4 lb of sugar rub the butter well in the flour, add the sugar to it beat the whites of 4 eggs, this with a little rosewater will be sufficient to wet it: it must be well worked, fifteen minutes, will bake them with a good fire, a few carraway seed may be added.

26 Barley Cream Take 2 spoonsfull of pearl Barley, boil it in milk + water till tender, strain the liquor from it put the barley into 1 1/2 pts of cream and let it boil a little. Then take the whites of 5 eggs & yolk of 1 beaten with a spoonfull of flour & 2 of rosewater. Take the cream off the fire mix in the eggs by degrees & set it over the fire again to thicken. Sweeten to your taste, pour it in a bason and when cold serve it up.

To dress Ducks Take 2 large ducks. cut them into quarters Fry them in butter a little brown, then pour off all the fat & flour them a little 1/2 pt of goose gravy 1/4 pt of red wine 2 shalots, anchovy, and some sweet herbs, cover them close & let them stew a quarter of an hour. Take out the herbs, skim off the fat, & let the gravy be as thick as cream Garnmish with lemon

27 To stew Rockfish Cut your fish if large so as to lay it in a stew pan, rub the inside & out with cayenne pepper salt & cloves pounded, then lay it in your pan slice a large onion, pick a good deal of parsley from the stalks, lay 1/2 the onion & parsley in the belly of the fish, add to it sufficient water to cover it, cover it close and put fire underneath & over it, then roll a lump of butter the size of an egg in the dish - Garnish with horse raddish & parsley

Savoy Biscuit. The weight of 12 eggs shells & all, of sugar of flour the weight of 7 seven - beat the yolks & whites seperately & put them after they are beaten together, put the sugar to the eggs a little at a time & the flour in the same manner - the juice of 2 or 3 limes & a little of the peel grated

Currant Shrub To 2 quarts of juice procured either by simple expression or by gently rubbing the currantz on the fire - add 1 1/2lbs of brown or 1 lb of loaf sugar, when they are well

26 mixed pour on gently 2 quarts of spirit stiring the juice [text struck out reads: {of 2 or 3 lemons & a little of the peel grated}] while you pour it in, then bottle it for use.

A Pound Cake Take a lb of fresh butter, beat it in an earthen pan, one way with your hand till it is like a fine thick cream, then have ready 12 eggs - put 1/2 the whites beat them well with the butter then beat in a lb of flour a lb of pouderded sugar, & lb of few carraway seed beat them well together for with your paw or hand butter a pan put {them} it in and let it bake 1 hour in a brisk oven.

Little Plumb Cake, Take 2 flour dried in the sun or before a great fire & 1/2 lb of sugar finely powdered five yolks of eggs 2 whites 1/2 lb of butter wash'd with rose water 6 spoonsfull of cream warmed 1 1/2 lbs of cur= =rants unwashed but picked & rubbed very nice= =ly with a cloth and mix all well together. Then make them up into cakes & bake them in a pretty hot oven let them stand until they are

29 browned on both sides - then take off the oven lid and let them soak, you must [melt?] the butter into the flour.

Sponge Biscuit Beat the yolks of 8 Eggs half an hour, put into 1 1/2 lbs of sugar beaten & sifted, whisk it well till you see it in bubbley - beat the whites to a strong froth, whisk them well with your sugar & yolks. beat in 14 ozs of flour with ^the rinds of 2 lemons grated, bake them in tin moulds butter'd, they require a hot oven, The mouth must not be sloped, when first you put them in dust them with sugar. They will bake in half an hour.

Mince Pies Two lbs of sweet shred very fine 2 lbs of beef shred fine 1 dozen apples choped fine two lbs of currants or raisins washed picked and choped 1/2 lb of brown sugar a nutmeg mace & cloves mix all together & wet it with cider & french brandy slice in some cit[rus?] & when you [f]ile your p[ary] add wine.

Pickled Stergeon Cut your fish down the back & in pieces of the size you would chose, salt it well &lay it on an