in flat pots, and keep it in a dry
place. It will either turn out or cut in slices.

_Spanish Butter._

Take two gallons of new milk, boil it, and, when you take it off the
fire, put in a quart of cream, giving it a stir; then pour it through a
sieve into an earthen pan: lay some sticks over your pan, and cover it
with a cloth; if you let it stand thus two days, it will be the better.
Skim off the cream thick, and sweeten it to your taste; you may put in a
little orange-flower water, and whip it well up.

_Cake._

Five pounds of flour dried, six pounds of currants, a quart of boiled
cream, a pound and a half of butter, twenty eggs, the whites of six
only, a pint of ale yest, one ounce of cinnamon finely beaten, one ounce
of cloves and mace also well beaten, a quarter of a pound of sugar, a
little salt, half a pound of orange and citron. Put in the cream and
butter when it is just warm; mix all well together, and let it stand
before the fire to rise. Put it into your hoop, and leave it in the oven
an hour and a quarter. The oven should be as hot as for a manchet.

_An excellent Cake._

Beat half a pound of sifted sugar and the same quantity of fresh butter
to a cream, in a basin made warm; mixing half a pound of flour well
dried, six eggs, leaving out four whites, and one table-spoonful of
brandy. The butter is to be beaten in first, then the flour, next the
sugar, the eggs, and lastly, the brandy. Currants or caraways may be
added at pleasure. It must be beaten an hour, and put in the oven
immediately.

_A great Cake._

Take six quarts of fine flour dried in an oven, six pounds of currants,
five pounds of butter, two pounds and a half of sugar, one pound of
citron, three quarters of a pound of orange-peel, and any other
sweetmeat you think proper; a pound of almonds ground very small, a few
coriander seeds beat and sifted, half an ounce of mace, four nutmegs,
sixteen eggs, six of the whites, half a pint of sack, and half a pint of
ale yest.

_Light Cake._

One pound of the finest flour, one ounce of powdered sugar, five ounces
of butter, three table-spoonfuls of fresh yest.

_A nice Cake._

Take nine eggs; beat the yolks and whites separately; the weight of
eight eggs in sugar, and five in flour: whisk the eggs and the sugar
together for half an hour; then put in the flour, just before the oven
is ready to bake it. Both the sugar and the flour must be sifted and
dried.

_A Plain Cake._