Take 5 pound of flour & dry it well and 5 pound of currants and one
of chopt raisons and mix with the flour then take half an ounce of
cinnamon a good nutmeg half a quarter of an ounce of mace & one pound
of Sugar and a little Salt and mix with it near the fire then take
almost a quart of cream and melt it in a pound and half of good butter
make 2 holes in the flour and put this into one then beat 16 eggs but
half the whites and strain them with a pint and half of good ale yest
put to it Sack and rosewater a quarter of a pint of each mix it and
put it into ye other hole of your flour, and let it stand against the
fire to warme then mix it near the fire and cover it with a hot cloth
for a quarter of an hour to rise then strow in a quarter of a pound of
carraway comfets let it take ye air as little as possible ye oven must
be hot an hour will bake it.