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The Art of Cookery y 
To ice a great cake * 
TAKE the whites of twenty-four eggs, and a pound of doti- 
ble-refined fugar beat and lifted fine; mix both together, in a 
deep earthen pan, and with a whifk whifk it well for two or three 
hours together till it looks white and thick, then with a thin 
broad board or bunch of feathers fpread it all over the top and 
Tides of the cake ; fet it at a proper diftance before a good clear 
fire, and keep turning it continually for fear of its changing co¬ 
lour ; but a cool oven is beft, and an hour will harden it< You 
may perfume the icing with what perfume you pleafe. 
To make, a pound cake . 
TAKE a pound of butter, beat it in an earthen pan with your 
hand one way, till it is like a fine thick cream, then have ready 
twelve eggs, but half the whites ; beat them well, and beat 
them up with the butter, a pound of flour beat in it, a pound 
of fugar, and a few carraways. Beat it all well together for 
an hour with your hand, or a great wooden fpoon, butter a pan 
and put it in, and then bake it an hour in a quick oven. 
For change, you may putin a pound of currants, clean wafhed 
and picked. 
T0 make a cheap feed-cake . 
YOU muft take half a peck of flour, a pound and a half of 
butter, put it in a fauce-pan with a pint of new milk, fet it on 
the fire; take a pound of fugar, half an ounce of all-fpice beat 
fine, and mix them with the flour. When the butter is melted, 
pour the milk and butter in the middle of the flour, and work 
it up like pafte. Pour in with the milk half a pint of good ale 
yeaft, fet it before the fire to rife, juft before it goes to the oven® 
Either put in fome currants or carraway-feeds, and bake it in a 
quick oven. Make it into two cakes. They will take an hour 
and a half baking. 
To make a butter cake , 
YOU muft take a difti of butter, and beat it like cream with 
your hands, two pounds of fine fugar well beat, three pounds 
of flour well dried, and mix them in with the butter, twenty-four 
eggs, leave out half the whites, and then beat all together for an 
hour. Juft as you are going to put it into the oven, put in a 
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