Take a pound of loafe Sugar beat and search it very fine through a sive
w^{th} a pound of very well dryed and fine flour that the Sugar and
flour may be well mingled together then take a pound of butter and wash
it well in rose water and then worke it with your hand till it be very
soft then strew your flour and Sugar in by degrees till it be half in
then put in 6 yolkes of eggs and but 4 whites then by degrees worke in
the other half of flour and Sugar and when the oven is hot or ready put
in 2 spoonfulls of rosewater and a pound of currants or 3 quarters of
carraway comfits which you like best and have your plats ready buttered
and fill them but half full & sift on some double refined Sugar on
them let the oven be pretty hot and set up the Lid these will keep and
Spend well.