Sarah Fayerweather Cookbook, 1764. A/F283, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

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Receipt Book in manuscript. 1764

Sarah Fayerweather June 26 MDCCLXIV

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(1 To make a little Cake

Take four pounds flour, one pound & a Quarter Sugar, one pound Butter, one pint milk, one pint Yeast, half an oz. of Spice and 6 Eggs

Sugar Cakes

Take one pound flour, one pound Sugar 10 Eggs rose water & Seeds

Portugal Cakes

Take flour, Butter, & Sugar, a pound of Each, a Quarter pound of Currants a little Canary & Spice

Plumb Cake

Take twelve pounds flour, five pounds Butter, five pounds Sugar Eight pounds Currants, two oz. Spice, on pint Canary one pint rose water, 40 Eggs, 1 pint yeast Glaze it with the whites of four Eggs, & Sugar, & rose water beat up together & Spread on when the cake is hot.