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To make Almond Cakes the Lady Archers way

Take a pound of Almonds blanch them In cold Water beate
them very fine In a stone Mortar put in now and then a
spoone full of Damask rose Water to keepe them from oyling then
take a pound of sugar finly beaten and serched mix them and
set them over the fire and stur them well together then take it of the
fire and beat up the whites of some eags to a froth and with the
froath make it into a past as thick as for a pudding and with a
spoone put it on papers and strow serched suger on the top of
them and soe bake them.

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to make a Sack Posset

take half a pint of sack and half a pint of Ale and half a pound of
sugar then take 18 eggs and beate them and strainne them then put them
to the drink and stur them together in your bason on a chafindish of coles till it
is scalding hot then take two quarts of creame boyling hot and put Into the
drink and stir it altogether a litel while then cover the bason and let it
stand half an hour you may put a blade of mase or sinnament in your creame
if you pleas Just when it is to be served up to stir it a little with a spoone and
and turn up some lumps it maks it look prittily