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To make a seed cake  37
Take 4th of flower, [1lb?] of fresh butter stick the butter into your flower in small pieces Rub it together till it be like grafted bread then put in a little salte mix ale balme 10th rosewater put in as much as will make it rise then take a pint of milk or a pint of creame put it together & heat it [bloud?] warme-- then make upp the dough & put it into a warme cloth & lay it before a soft fire a fall houre turning of it often then take it upp & put in a pound of Bisket comfits & half a pound of Carraway Comfitts & make as much speed as possibly you can to put it into the oven then lett it stand a full houre that it may be well soaked.
The queenes Receipt for a Finc Cake;
A quarter of a peck of flower 1 pint of Creame 3 quarters of a pound of butter ten yelks of Eggs & a porringer full of Barme Season it with salt & a penyworth of cloves mace & nutmeggs 2 ounces, of rosewater [nth?] musk & amber as you please a pound & a half of Carrons & [1lb?] reasons stoned & shred small let them lye an houre make dough stir it in the oucr & lett it not be a quarter of an houre their [Jee?] it over with suger, y fit be not baked in a quarter of an houre let it stand longer.
To mke Little Cakes;
Take 4[lb?] of flower finely searsed & dried 4[lb?] of butter crumble your butter as small as you can into your flower then put one pound of suger finely beaten 1[lb?] Corrons 4 nutmegs ye whites of 4 Eggs & a little rose water-- mingle all theis things together & make into little cakes the size two peny cakes heat your oven as hott as for manchet but sett not up ye lidd, this quantity will make a douzen;/

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To make a seed cake 37 Take 4th of flower, [1lb?] of fresh butter stick the butter into your flower in small pieces Rub it together till it be like grafted bread then put in a little salte mix ale balme 10th rosewater put in as much as will make it rise then take a pint of milk or a pint of creame put it together & heat it [bloud?] warme-- then make upp the dough & put it into a warme cloth & lay it before a soft fire a fall houre turning of it often then take it upp & put in a pound of Bisket comfits & half a pound of Carraway Comfitts & make as much speed as possibly you can to put it into the oven then lett it stand a full houre that it may be well soaked. The queenes Receipt for a Finc Cake; A quarter of a peck of flower 1 pint of Creame 3 quarters of a pound of butter ten yelks of Eggs & a porringer full of Barme Season it with salt & a penyworth of cloves mace & nutmeggs 2 ounces, of rosewater [nth?] musk & amber as you please a pound & a half of Carrons & [1lb?] reasons stoned & shred small let them lye an houre make dough stir it in the oucr & lett it not be a quarter of an houre their [Jee?] it over with suger, y fit be not baked in a quarter of an houre let it stand longer. To mke Little Cakes; Take 4[lb?] of flower finely searsed & dried 4[lb?] of butter crumble your butter as small as you can into your flower then put one pound of suger finely beaten 1[lb?] Corrons 4 nutmegs ye whites of 4 Eggs & a little rose water-- mingle all theis things together & make into little cakes the size two peny cakes heat your oven as hott as for manchet but sett not up ye lidd, this quantity will make a douzen;/