The Art of Cookery> 
let it ftand three hours in a moderate oven. You muft obferve 
always, in beating of butter, to do it with a cool hand, and beat 
it always one way in a deep earthen difli. 
To make pepper cakes . 
TAKE half a gill of fack, half a quarter of an ounce of 
whole white pepper, put it in and boil it together a quarter of 
an hour, then take the pepper out, and put in as much double-* 
refined fugar as will make it like a pafte, then drop it in what 
fliape you pleafe on plates, and let it dry itfelf. 
To make Portugal cakes. 
MIX into a pound of fine flour, a pound of loaf-fugar beat 
and fifted, then rub it into a pound of pure fweet butter till it 
is thick like grated white bread, then put to it two fpoonfuls of 
rofe-water, two of fack, ten eggs, whip them very well with a 
whifk, then mix it into eight ounces of currants, mixed all well 
together; butter the tin pans, fill them but half full, and bake 
them ; if made without currants they will keep half a year ; add 
a pound of almonds blanched, and beat with rofe-water, as above* 
and leave out the flour. Thefe are another fort and better. 
To make a pretty cake. 
TAKE five pounds of flour well dried, one pound of fugar* 
half an ounce of mace, as much nutmeg, beat your fpice very 
fine, mix the fugar and fpice in the flour, take twenty - two eggs, 
leave out fix whites, beat them, put a pint of ale-yeaft and 
the eggs in the flour, take two pounds and a half of frefh but¬ 
ter, a pint and a half of cream, let the cream and butter over the 
fire, till the butter is melted, let it ftand till it is blood-warm, 
before you put it into the flour fet it an hour by the fire to 
rife, then put in feven pounds of currants, which muft be 
plumped in half a pint of brandy, and three quarters of a pound 
of candied peels. It muft be an hour and a quarter in the 
oven. You muft put two pounds of chopped raifins in the flour, 
and a quarter of a pint of fack. When you put the currants in, 
bake it in a hoop. 
To make ginger Tread. 
TAKE three quarts of fine flour, two ounces of beaten gin¬ 
ger, a quarter of an ounce of nutmeg, doves, and mace beat 
fine, but moft of the laft; mix all together, three quarters of 
a pound of fine fugar, two pounds of treacle, fet it over the fire, 
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