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To Make Chease Cake. 71.
Take a gallon of new milk & make it into a tender Curd yn beat ye Curd very well in a morter & put to it half a pound of melted butter ye yolks of 6 Eggs beaten well wt rose watter or sack 1/2 a pound of naple bisskit or greated bread near 3 quarter of a pound of suger a greated nutmeg little or no Cream stir all theas well to gether yn have as many Curronds plumped in warm watter as you like & stir ym in yn fill ym & bake ym in a quick oven if you put in bread in ye room of biskit put in an Egg or two more .
To Make Frittors 
Take a like of brandy sack & oring flower watter in all [1/2?] a pint 2 ounces of fine suger 1/2 an ounce of senimon mace & ginger, 2 ounces of fine suger 4 Eggs well beaten wt a little salt a pint of Cream 8 ounces of naple biskit greated yn mix it thicker yn batter for pan cake wt fine flower mix ym well yn fry ym & Clarified hogs Lard ye pan must be all most full strick it from a trencher wt a knife in bits ye bigness of a chesenut wn fryed dust on ym fine suger.

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To Make Chease Cake. 71. Take a gallon of new milk & make it into a tender Curd yn beat ye Curd very well in a morter & put to it half a pound of melted butter ye yolks of 6 Eggs beaten well wt rose watter or sack 1/2 a pound of naple bisskit or greated bread near 3 quarter of a pound of suger a greated nutmeg little or no Cream stir all theas well to gether yn have as many Curronds plumped in warm watter as you like & stir ym in yn fill ym & bake ym in a quick oven if you put in bread in ye room of biskit put in an Egg or two more . To Make Frittors Take a like of brandy sack & oring flower watter in all [1/2?] a pint 2 ounces of fine suger 1/2 an ounce of senimon mace & ginger, 2 ounces of fine suger 4 Eggs well beaten wt a little salt a pint of Cream 8 ounces of naple biskit greated yn mix it thicker yn batter for pan cake wt fine flower mix ym well yn fry ym & Clarified hogs Lard ye pan must be all most full strick it from a trencher wt a knife in bits ye bigness of a chesenut wn fryed dust on ym fine suger.