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	To make a Plumb Cake without Yest
	Beat 4 lb of Fresh Butter to a Cream with your Hand, Beat &
	Sift 2 lb of Fine Sugar dry it well Mix the Sugar and Butter
	well together, then take 4 lb of Flower Dry’d well mix it with
	the Sugar and Butter put in a Pint of Sack, take 32 Eggs the
	Yolks and whites Beaten Seperately ~~with~~ whisk the Whites till they
	come to a Curd which will take half an Hour, Mix the
	whites first with the other things and then the yolks, then
	take 4 lb of Currans* well Wash’d, pick’d, dry’d & Plumb’d**
	Mix them Hot, have ready a lb of Almonds Blanch’d
	and shav’d* Longways very thin Mix them with your
	other Ingredients, Then add half an ounce of Mace & as
	much Nutmeg Beat & Sifted, put in what Sweetmeats
	you please have all ready before you begin to Mix them,
	Keep it Beating till you put it in the oven, put Sheet
	of Brownpaper at the Bottom of your Hoop
	After it is risen and Colour’d, Cover it with a Sheet
	of paper before you Stop the Oven, Let it stand 3. Hours
	then Glaize* it
Ed Wh*
		Turn over See
		Expenses

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Transcribed by JW and LF