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Penelope Pemberton cookbook, Dec. 19, 1716
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Iseing for cakes sume puts a litle goom & rago sock in wate with ye [illegible] Take 1 pound & halfe of duble refine suger finely serst through a silk sive ye whits of 3 newe layd eggs take ye strins clere out: strowe ye suger into ye eggs by degrees in marble morter or woden bole beat it with a whisk tel it be so sad yu cannot: yn take a wooden pestal & beat it tel it be as white as snowe yu must ceep constantly beaten after yu begin it will take an ouer & halfe or 2 ours beating: ys must be rady aganst ye cake is beakt: drawe it to ye oven mouth & lay ye isein all o ver & all of a thickness about as thick as a large strawe yu may set it into ye oven agane to harden if not to hot: if it be set it before ye fier so yu may ise any plome or seed cake Iseing for caks Take ye whits of 6 newe layd eggs beat ym as yu wold for lemon drops & let ym stand tel ye oyle part separats frome ym take it away & put to ye outher 1 pound of duble refine suger serst through a silk sive 2 or 3 drops of orringe flower water beat ym very well tel it be as white as snowe it must be beaten for an over & half or more constantly: yn drawe ye cake to ye oven mouth or set it before ye fier & with a clane woodcock winge spred ye iseing all over ye cake a prity thickness & even so Let it drie & lay a paper lowse over to ceep it frome browning: set it away as sowne a it is drie
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Iseing for cakes sume puts a litle goom & rago sock in wate with ye [illegible] Take 1 pound & halfe of duble refine suger finely serst through a silk sive ye whits of 3 newe layd eggs take ye strins clere out: strowe ye suger into ye eggs by degrees in marble morter or woden bole beat it with a whisk tel it be so sad yu cannot: yn take a wooden pestal & beat it tel it be as white as snowe yu must ceep constantly beaten after yu begin it will take an ouer & halfe or 2 ours beating: ys must be rady aganst ye cake is beakt: drawe it to ye oven mouth & lay ye isein all o ver & all of a thickness about as thick as a large strawe yu may set it into ye oven agane to harden if not to hot: if it be set it before ye fier so yu may ise any plome or seed cake Iseing for caks Take ye whits of 6 newe layd eggs beat ym as yu wold for lemon drops & let ym stand tel ye oyle part separats frome ym take it away & put to ye outher 1 pound of duble refine suger serst through a silk sive 2 or 3 drops of orringe flower water beat ym very well tel it be as white as snowe it must be beaten for an over & half or more constantly: yn drawe ye cake to ye oven mouth or set it before ye fier & with a clane woodcock winge spred ye iseing all over ye cake a prity thickness & even so Let it drie & lay a paper lowse over to ceep it frome browning: set it away as sowne a it is drie
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