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of Butter Melted therein, Mix it together in a pan over the fire, stirring it with your hands till it is very smooth and hot, then put it in a hoop with a paper buttered at the bottom. Mrs. Gamhan.

Iceeing A Butter Cake
Beat 1 lb of loaf sugar, and put to it the whites of 4 Eggs, put 1 at a time, and a spoonful of Honey Water, beat them in a basin with a silver spoon, till it is very light and White. Mrs. Crickener 1848.

A Seed Cake. 
3 lbs of small carraway seeds or comfits 6 lbs of Flour, 1/2 lb Moist Sugar, 1 oz of spice rubbed in very fine, 1 lb of Butter, Make a hole in the flour, and put in 3 pints of yeast, 1/2 a pint of sack, a little honey water and 1 pint of warm Milk Mixed together, then strew a little flour, thereon and let it lie to rise, put it in a hoop, and strew on it double refined sugar, and rough cherry comfits and bake it. Mrs.Crickener

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of Butter Melted therein, Mix it together in a pan over the fire, stirring it with your hands till it is very smooth and hot, then put it in a hoop with a paper buttered at the bottom. Mrs. Gamhan. Iceeing A Butter Cake Beat 1 lb of loaf sugar, and put to it the whites of 4 Eggs, put 1 at a time, and a spoonful of Honey Water, beat them in a basin with a silver spoon, till it is very light and White. Mrs. Crickener 1848. A Seed Cake. 3 lbs of small carraway seeds or comfits 6 lbs of Flour, 1/2 lb Moist Sugar, 1 oz of spice rubbed in very fine, 1 lb of Butter, Make a hole in the flour, and put in 3 pints of yeast, 1/2 a pint of sack, a little honey water and 1 pint of warm Milk Mixed together, then strew a little flour, thereon and let it lie to rise, put it in a hoop, and strew on it double refined sugar, and rough cherry comfits and bake it. Mrs.Crickener