Pound Cake._

Take a pound of flour and a pound of butter; beat to a cream eight eggs,
leaving out the whites of four, and beat them up with the butter. Put
the flour in by degrees, one pound of sugar, a few caraway seeds, and
currants, if you like; half a pound will do.

_Another._

Take half a pound of butter, and half a pound of powdered lump-sugar;
beat them till they are like a cream. Then take three eggs, leaving out
the whites of two; beat them very well with a little brandy; then put
the eggs to the butter and sugar; beat it again till it is come to a
cream. Shake over it half a pound of dried flour; beat it well with your
hand; add half a nutmeg, half an ounce of caraway seeds, and what
sweetmeat you please. Butter the mould well.

_Pound Davy._

Beat up well ten eggs and half a pound of sugar with a little
rose-water; mix in half a pound of flour, and bake it in a pan.

_Clear Quince Cakes._

Take the apple quince, pare and core it; take as many apples as quinces;
just cover them with water, and boil till they are broken. Strain them
through a sieve or woollen bag, and boil up to a candy as many pounds of
sugar as you have of jelly, which put in your jelly; just let it scald
over the fire, and put it into paste in a stove. The paste is made thus:
Scald quinces in water till they are tender; then pare and scrape them
fine with a knife and put them into apple jelly; let it stand till you
think the paste sufficiently thickened, then boil up to a candy as many
pounds of sugar as you have of paste.

_Ratafia Cakes._

Bitter and sweet almonds, of each a quarter of a pound, blanched and
well dried with a napkin, finely pounded with the white of an egg; three
quarters of a pound of finely pounded sugar mixed with the almonds. Have
the whites of three eggs beat well, and mix up with the sugar and
almonds; put the mixture with a tea-spoon on white paper, and bake it in
a slow heat; when the cakes are cold, they come off easily from the
paper. When almonds are pounded, they are generally sprinkled with a
little water, otherwise they become oily. Instead of water take to the
above the white of an egg or a little more; to the whole of the above
quantity the whites of four eggs are used.

_Rice Cake._

Ground rice, flour and loaf-sugar, of each six ounces, eight eggs,
leaving out five of the whites, the peel of a lemon grated: beat all
together half an hour, and bake it three quarters of an hour in a