[unleavened cakes]

Queens Cake. 
Whip half pound  butter  to a cream, add 1 pound  sugar,  ten  eggs,  one glass  wine,  half gill  rose water,  and  spices  to your taste, all worked into one and a quarter pound  flour,  put into pans, cover with paper, and bake in a quick well heat oven, 12 or 16 minutes. 
 
 
Pound Cake. 
One pound  sugar,  one pound  butter,  one pound  flour,  one pound or ten  eggs,   rose water  one gill,  spices  to your taste; watch it well, it will bake in a slow oven in 15 minutes. 
 
 
Another (called) Pound Cake. 
Work three quarters of a pound  butter,  one pound of good  sugar,  'till very white, whip ten  whites  to a foam, add the  yolks  and beat together, add one spoon  rose water,  2 of  brandy,  and put the whole to one and a quarter of a pound  flour,  if yet too soft add  flour  and bake slowly. 
 
 
Soft Cakes in little pans. 
One and half pound  sugar,  half pound  butter,  rubbed into two pounds  flour,  add one glass  wine,  one do.  rose water,  18  eggs  and a  nutmeg. 
 
 
A light Cake to bake in small cups. 
Half a pound  sugar,  half a pound  butter,  rubbed into two pounds  flour,  one glass  wine,  one do.  rose water,  two do.  emptins,  a  nutmeg,   cinnamon  and  currants. 
 
 
Shrewsbury Cake. 
One pound  butter,  three quarters of a pound  sugar,  a little  mace,  four  eggs  mixed and beat with your hand, till very light, put the composition to one pound  flour,  roll into small cakes--bake with a light oven. 
 N.B. In all cakes where  spices  are named, it is supposed that they be pounded fine and sifted;  sugar  must be dryed and rolled fine;  flour,  dryed in an oven;  eggs  well beat or whipped into a raging foam. 
 
 
Diet Bread. 
One pound  sugar,  9  eggs,  beat for an hour, add to 14 ounces  flour,  spoonful  rose water,  one do.  cinnamon  or  coriander,  bake quick. 


A Butter Drop. 
Four  yolks,  two  whites,  one pound  flour,  a quarter of a pound  butter,  one pound  sugar,  two spoons  rose water,  a little  mace,  baked in tin pans. 




American Cookery
Amelia Simmons
1798



Northampton
Massachusetts

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