Take a quartern of fine flour, a pound and a half of butter, three
ounces of caraway-seeds, six eggs, well beaten, a quarter of an ounce
of well-beaten cloves and mace, a little pounded cinnamon, one pound
of sugar, a little rose-water and saffron, a pint and a half of
yeast, and a quart of milk. Mix them thus: first boil the milk and
butter, then skim off the butter, and mix it with the flour and a
little of the milk. Stir the yeast into the rest and strain it; mix
it with the flour, put in the eggs and spice, rose-water, tincture of
saffron, sugar, and eggs. Beat it all well up, and bake it in a hoop
or pan well buttered. Send it to a quick oven, and an hour and a half
will do it.