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To make. 
No. 1. Rub in half pound  sugar,  half pound  butter,  to four pound  flour,  add pint  milk,  pint  emptins;  when risen well, bake in pans ten minutes, fast. 
No. 2. One pound  sugar,  one pound  butter,  six  eggs,  rubbed into 5 pounds  flour,  one quart  emptins  and wet with  milk,  sufficient to bake, as above. 
No. 3. One pound  sugar,  one pound  butter,  rubbed into 6 or 8 pounds of  flour,  12  eggs,  one pint  emptins,  wet soft with  milk,  and bake. 
No. 4.  P. C. rusk.  Put fifteen  eggs  to 4 pounds  flour  and make into large biscuit; and bake double, or one top of another. 
No. 5. One pint  milk,  one pint  emptins,  to be laid over night in spunge, in morning, melt three quarters of a pound  butter,  one pound  sugar,  in another pint of  milk,  add luke warm, beat till it rise well. 
No. 6. Three quarters of a pound  butter,  1 pound  sugar,  12  eggs,  one quart of  milk,  put as much  flour  as they will wet, a spoon of  cinnamon,  gill  emptins, let it stand till very puffy or light; roll into small cakes and let it stand on oiled tins while the oven is heating, bake 15 minutes in a quick oven, then wash the top with  sugar  and  whites,  while hot. 


American Cookery
Amelia Simmons
1798
Northampton
Massachusetts

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