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Puft Paste a pound of flour, two ounces of butter rubbed into the flour, mix in cold water, & 12 ounces of butter rolled 3 times in the paste, also between every roll of paste, if a little eating oil were sprinkled it would cause the paste to be a fine bright color & more shivery. A very little volatile of salts dissolved in milk, & used in the above, will make the paste much lighter, & look more beautiful, & all kinds of puffs & most pastes. Portugal Cakes Mix into a pound of fine flour a lb of loaf sugar beat & sifted & rub it into a pound of pure sweet butter, till it is thick like grated white bread, then put to it two spoonfuls of rose water two of salt, & ten eggs then work them well with a whisk, & put in 8 ounces of currants butter the tin pans, fill them but half full & bake them in a sharp oven, if made without currants they will keep half a year. To [Crear?] Sugar Gum arabic & Isinglass dissolved in hot water when dissolved pour it when dissolved, into the sugar when boiling it will clear the sediment to the top of the pan skimmed off as often as it rises loaf sugar may also be cleared with the white of eggs, Isinglass or gum arabic or a little of each with 1 pt [illegible] or 1 pt of nitre
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Puft Paste a pound of flour, two ounces of butter rubbed into the flour, mix in cold water, & 12 ounces of butter rolled 3 times in the paste, also between every roll of paste, if a little eating oil were sprinkled it would cause the paste to be a fine bright color & more shivery. A very little volatile of salts dissolved in milk, & used in the above, will make the paste much lighter, & look more beautiful, & all kinds of puffs & most pastes. Portugal Cakes Mix into a pound of fine flour a lb of loaf sugar beat & sifted & rub it into a pound of pure sweet butter, till it is thick like grated white bread, then put to it two spoonfuls of rose water two of salt, & ten eggs then work them well with a whisk, & put in 8 ounces of currants butter the tin pans, fill them but half full & bake them in a sharp oven, if made without currants they will keep half a year. To [Crear?] Sugar Gum arabic & Isinglass dissolved in hot water when dissolved pour it when dissolved, into the sugar when boiling it will clear the sediment to the top of the pan skimmed off as often as it rises loaf sugar may also be cleared with the white of eggs, Isinglass or gum arabic or a little of each with 1 pt [illegible] or 1 pt of nitre
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