Take 4 pound of flour 10 eggs but 5 whites a pint of ale yest and half
a pint of cream a quarter of a pint of Sack or rose water half a pound
of carraway cumfets half a pound of sugar half a pound of butter some
saffron half an ounce of nutmeg of mace and cinnamon let your flour be
dry’d very well then mix it with Sugar carrawayes and Spice beat your
eggs very well & yest and Sack together let your cream boyle and melt
your butter in it then temper your cake let it stand half an hour to
rise bake it in a paper coffin.