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Ann Kenwrick cookbook, 1770
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How to make a rich plumb cake Take five pound on flower, and half a pound of fine sugar 3 1/11 of mace and nuttmeggs together beat very fine mix the spices and sugar into your flower take 22 eggs take out [illegible] of the whites beat your eggs very well with half a pint of [sack?] and a spoonfull of Brandy and take a pint of good ale [last?] put the eggs and [last?] into the flower and stir them well together then take 2 pound and half of good butter a pint and half of cream set the cream over the fire till it be so hott as to melt the butter put them into the flower bring good [blood?] warm sitt it by the fire [illegible] and hour coverd with a cloth then put in [illegible] pounds of [currants?] made very clean you may put in 3 quarters of a pound of [illegible] orange lemon or citron cut in then slices and put in with the [currant?] it must stand an hour and a [illegible] a quarter in the oven [2?] To ice the cake Take a pound of doublerefind sugar finely beaten and sifted take the white of [11?] new lay'd eggs whip them up to a froth then shake in the sugar by degrees [illegible] whiping it put 2 spoonfulls of rose water when the cake is baked and out of the oven they lay it on fine with your hand put it into the oven again for a quarter of an hour
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How to make a rich plumb cake Take five pound on flower, and half a pound of fine sugar 3 1/11 of mace and nuttmeggs together beat very fine mix the spices and sugar into your flower take 22 eggs take out [illegible] of the whites beat your eggs very well with half a pint of [sack?] and a spoonfull of Brandy and take a pint of good ale [last?] put the eggs and [last?] into the flower and stir them well together then take 2 pound and half of good butter a pint and half of cream set the cream over the fire till it be so hott as to melt the butter put them into the flower bring good [blood?] warm sitt it by the fire [illegible] and hour coverd with a cloth then put in [illegible] pounds of [currants?] made very clean you may put in 3 quarters of a pound of [illegible] orange lemon or citron cut in then slices and put in with the [currant?] it must stand an hour and a [illegible] a quarter in the oven [2?] To ice the cake Take a pound of doublerefind sugar finely beaten and sifted take the white of [11?] new lay'd eggs whip them up to a froth then shake in the sugar by degrees [illegible] whiping it put 2 spoonfulls of rose water when the cake is baked and out of the oven they lay it on fine with your hand put it into the oven again for a quarter of an hour
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