Cake Recipe

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.

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