beat them very fine with
rosewater, then strain them with some two quarts of cream, twenty
whites of eggs, and a pound of double refined sugar; make the paste
as beforesaid, and bake it in a mild oven fine and white, garnish it
as before and scrape fine sugar over all.

_To make a Custard without Eggs._

Take a pound of almonds, blanch and beat them with rose-water into a
fine paste, then put the spawn or row of a Carp or Pike to it, and
beat them well together, with some cloves, mace, and salt, the
spices being first beaten, and some ginger, strain them with some
fair spring water, and put into the strained stuff half a pound of
double refined sugar and a little saffron; when the paste is dried
and ready to fill, put into the bottom of the coffin some slic't
dates, raisins of the sun stoned, and some boiled currans, fill them
and bake them; being baked, scrape sugar on them. Be sure always to
prick your custards or forms before you set them in the oven.

If you have no row or spawn, put rice flour instead hereof.

_To make an extraordinary good Cake._

Take half a bushel of the best flour you can get very finely
searsed, and lay it upon a large Pastry board, make a hole in the
midst thereof, and put to it three pound of the best butter you can
get; with fourteen pound of currans finely picked and rubbed, three
quarts of good new thick cream warm'd, two pound of fine sugar
beaten, three pints of good new ale, barm or yeast, four ounces of
cinamon fine beaten and searsed, also an ounce of beaten ginger, two
ounces of nutmegs fine beaten and searsed; put in all these
materials together, and work them up into an indifferent stiff
paste, keep it warm till the oven be hot, then make it up and bake
it, being baked an hour and a half ice it, then take four pound of
double refined sugar, beat it, and searse it, and put it in a deep
clean scowred skillet the quantity of a gallon, boil it to a candy
height with a little rose-water, then draw the cake, run it all
over, and set it into the oven, till it be candied.

_To make a Cake otherways._

Take a gallon of very fine flour and lay it on the pastry board,
then strain three or four eggs with a pint of barm, and put it into
a hole made in the middle of the flour with two nutmegs finely
beaten, an ounce of cinamon, and an ounce of cloves and mace beaten
fine also, half a pound of sugar, and a pint of cream; put these
into the flour with two spoonfuls of salt, a