1. _The Wood-street Cake._

Take a quarter of a peck of y^e finest flower, mingle into it a little

salt & some beaten Cloves Mace & Nutmegs, a pound and halfe of Currance

wash’d and dry’d, & a pound of Raisins of y^e Sun ston’d and shred,

then straine in about a pinte of Ale yeast, and put in y^e yolkes of

10 eggs beaten with Rose water, put in a pint of Cream with 3 quarters

of a pound of Butter melted in it. mingle all these well together, and

knead it, cover it with a clothe and let it stand about an hour before

y^e fire to rise, then mould it up and beat it out thinn in y^e edges

and thick in y^e middle, then prick it or cut it w^{th} a knife, and

set it in y^e oven, when it is almost bak’d take it out and ice it on

y^e top w^{th} Rose water & sugar and sett it in y^e oven againe ’till

’tis enough, putt some musk or Ambergreese dissolv’d in y^e Rose water.

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