Seed Cake._ No. 1.

Heat a wooden bowl, and work in three pounds of butter with your hands,
till it is as thin as cream; then work in by degrees two pounds of fine
sugar sifted, and eighteen eggs well beaten, leaving out four of the
whites; put the eggs in by degrees. Take three pounds of the finest
flour, well dried and sifted, mixed with one ounce and a half of caraway
seeds, one nutmeg, and a little mace; put them in the flour as you did
the sugar, and beat it well up with your hands; put it in your hoop; and
it will take two hours' baking. You may add sweetmeats if you like. The
dough must be made by the fire, and kept constantly worked with the
hands to mix it well together. If you have sweetmeats, put half a pound
of citron, a quarter of a pound of lemon-peel, and put the dough lightly
into the hoop, just before you send it to the oven, without smoothing it
at top, for that makes it heavy.

_Seed Cake._ No. 2.

Take a pound and a half of butter; beat it to a cream with your hand or
a flat stick; beat twelve eggs, the yolks in one pan and the whites in
another, as light as possible, and then beat them together, adding by
degrees one pound and a half of well dried and sifted loaf-sugar, and a
little sack and brandy. When the oven is nearly ready, mix all together,
with one pound and a half of well dried and sifted flour, half a pound
of sliced almonds, and some caraway seeds: beat it well with your hand
before you put it into the hoop.

_Seed Cake._ No. 3, _called Borrow Brack._

Melt one pound and a half of butter in a quart of milk made warm. Mix
fourteen eggs in half a pint of yest. Take half a peck of flour, and one
pound of sugar, both dried and sifted, four ounces of caraway seeds, and
two ounces of beaten ginger. Mix all well together. First put the eggs
and the yest to the flour, then add the butter and the milk. Make it
into a paste of the substance of that for French bread; if not flour
enough add what is sufficient; and if too much, put some warm new milk.
Let it stand for above half an hour at the fire, before you make it up
into what form you please.

_Shrewsbury Cakes._

Take three pounds and a half of fresh butter, work the whey and any salt
that it may contain well out of it. Take four pounds of fine flour well
dried and sifted, one ounce of powdered cinnamon, five eggs well beaten,
and two pounds of loaf-sugar well dried and sifted. Put them all into
the flour, and work them well toget