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11 To Make The Lady Strowds Cake Take your flowr and putt it in A warme Oven all night to dry wash and Pick clean 12 Pound of currans and sett ym in ye oven with ye Floure when they are dryed weigh Tenn Pound and A halfe of Flowre and putt it into A large bowle and Putt to it A Pound of Almonds Blancht And beaten with A little faire water to keep ym from oyling Rub ym well into your Floure and putt in yr Currans And 2 Nutmeggs grated and A Little cinamon And mace Beaten and halfe A Pound Sugar beaten small A quart of good Ale yest and 40 Eggs with halfe ye Whits beaten very well togeather A Pint of Sack and 3 quarts of thick creame and three Pound of Butter Sett your cream on ye fire and putt your butter into it and lett it stand till ye butter be Allmost melted then take it of and when it is blood warme putt it into the other things and mix ym all well togeather yn lay A cloth over itt and Sett it before the fire to rise while the oven is A Sweeping yn take it up and stir it well togeather, so putt it into your case or Hoope wch must be very well buttered cutt it and Prick it in severall Places to ye Bottome so sett it into the Oven. when it is Baked pull of ye papers and Ice it with fine Lofe Sugar beaten with ye Whits of Eggs and Rose Water and if you Please. may grind A little Musk with your Sugar, when it is Ised you must sett it in ye oven till ye Ice be hardned ye oven must not be too Hott When you sett it into the Oven make this marke in ye middle of ye cake, with a knife down to the bottom it will hinder it from hufing S
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12 To Make Corran Berry Wine Take A Gallon of Corrans and A Gallon of Water, boyle your water and Putt to your Corran's being clean Pickt from ye stalks and Bruised and so lett ym stand all night then Straine them out and Putt to Every Gallon of water 2 lb of good sugar yn stop it close up in your vessell and At ye weekes End bottle itt doe not Straine your Berryes butt lett them Run through A Haire Sive
A Excellent way To make Meed Take 20 quarts of Spring water sett it on A clear[?] fire Putt into it 2 quarts of Honey and 2 lb of fyne sugar A Spoonfull of coriander Seeds Brused and tyed upin A fine Ragg 6 Races of Ginger and A Root of Horse Raddish lett all these boyl till it be Scummed cleare then take it of and lett it Stand to Coole and when it is luke warme Putt it into A Runlett with 40 cloves the Juce of Eight Lemons and the Pills of 4 of them 4 Toasts of a Rowle Spred on both Sids with new yest then Stop it up close and lett it Stand A Fortnight then draw it of and Bottle it and open them Every other day for Three times togeather lett the Bottles Stand open untill the other be cork't yn strik ym downe with A Mallet it will be ready to drink in A month
