Take a peck of fine wheat flour 3 pound of butter breake your butter in
pieces into the flour till it be crumbly and then take 8 pound of y^e
best currants and put them in with a quarter of an ounce of mace & one
ounce and half of nutmegs a pound and half of loafe Sugar a spoonfull
of salt and an ale pint of Scaulded cream and a pint of cream cold
something better than a quarter of a pint of sack 6 eggs both yolkes
and whites a pint of new ale barme strain’d, mingle all these together
but do not knead it longer than to mingle it, then set it before the
fire to rise, which will be in half an hour, it must be cover’d with a
blanket, when you rowle it out you may if you will put a sheet of other
paste under it the oven must be well and hot and it must stand in the
oven at least 3 hours when it is almost baked you may draw it to the
mouth of the oven and see it as you do tarts.