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To make little sugar Cakes with Currans in the midle
Take a pound of fine flower. & a pound of butter. rub
your butter into your flower then take 2 or 3 spoonfulls
of ale yest. & with that work it into stif paist. put
nothing els to it. then take a quarter of a pound of
Currans or rather better. wash them cleane & dry them
& take a quarter of a pound of sugar & a nutmeg
grated & mix them with your Currans. then take your
paist & breake it in little peices & work it round in
your hand like a ball. then put your thumb into
the midle & raise it round like a py. then put in
a few Currans & close downe the edge of it. untill
it cover the Currans. then lay it upon the table & dust
your hand with flower. & with the palm of your hand
flat them downe on the edges. so lay them upon
halfe sheets of paper. & bake them not too browne.
when they are hot dust them with a little fine sugar
upon the tops. & if you please may work some Currans
into the paist. & make them into little cakes. & nick them
round the edge & so bake them.

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(212) To make little sugar Cakes with Currans in the midle Take a pound of fine flower. & a pound of butter. rub your butter into your flower then take 2 or 3 spoonfulls of ale yest. & with that work it into stif paist. put nothing els to it. then take a quarter of a pound of Currans or rather better. wash them cleane & dry them & take a quarter of a pound of sugar & a nutmeg grated & mix them with your Currans. then take your paist & breake it in little peices & work it round in your hand like a ball. then put your thumb into the midle & raise it round like a py. then put in a few Currans & close downe the edge of it. untill it cover the Currans. then lay it upon the table & dust your hand with flower. & with the palm of your hand flat them downe on the edges. so lay them upon halfe sheets of paper. & bake them not too browne. when they are hot dust them with a little fine sugar upon the tops. & if you please may work some Currans into the paist. & make them into little cakes. & nick them round the edge & so bake them.