A Good Cake Ingredients-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

The ingredients for the receipt (recipe) A Good Cake: my first Cousen Clerkes Receipt, 1681 are seven pounde of flower, three pounds of butter, one quart of creame if very good or else 3 pintes, a quarter of a pinte of sack, as much rose-water, 16 yolks of eggs, one pounde of suger…tenn pounde of courents…one quart ale east (yeast).  The cake pictured was prepared with one quarter of the above listed ingredients.

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