* made Plain and Eafy . &ff, 
very little all-fpice beat fine ; take Haifa pint of good yeaft, and 
put in half a pint of water, ftir it well together, ftrain it, and 
mix up your flour into a pafte of moderate ftiffnefs. You muft 
add as much cold water as will make the pafte of a right order : 
make it into cakes about the thicknefs and bignefs of an oat^ 
cake; have ready fome currants clean wafhed and picked, drew 
fome juft: in the middle of your cakes between your dough, fa 
that none can be feen till the cake is broke. You may leave 
the currants out, if you don’t chufe them. 
To make light wigs . 
TAKE a pound and a half of flour, and half a pint of milk 
made warm, mix thefe together, cover it up, and let it lie by 
the fire half an hour; then take half a pound of fugar, and half 
a pound of butter, then work thefe into a pafte and make it into 
wigs, with as little flour as poffible. Let the oven be pretty 
quick, and they will rife very much. Mind to mix a quarter 
of a pint of good ale yeaft in milk. 
T0 make very good wigs. 
TAKE a quarter of a peck of the fine ft flour, rub it into three 
quarters of a pound of frefh butter till it is like grated bread, 
fomething more than,half a pound of fugar, half a nutmeg, 
half a race of ginger grated, three eggs, yolks and whites 
beat very well, and put to them half a pint of thick ale yeaft, 
three or four fpoonfuls of fack, make a hole in the flour, and 
pour in your yeaft and eggs, as much milk, juft warm, as will 
make it into a light pafte. Let it ftand before the fire to rife 
half an hour, then make it into a dozen and a half of wigs, wafh 
them over with egg juft as they go into the oven. A quick oven 
and half an hour will bake them. 
To make luns . 
TAKE two pounds of fine flour, a pint of good ale yeaft, 
put a little fack in the yeaft, and three eggs beaten, knead all 
thefe together with a little warm milk, a little nutmeg, and a 
little fait ; a,nd lay it before the fire till it rifes very light, then 
knead in a pound of frefh butter, a pound of rough carraway- 
comfits, and bake them in a quick oven, in what fhape yon 
pleafe, on floured paper, 
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