currans after they are cleaned, then take three quarters of an
ounce of mace, two large nutmegs beaten and mix'd amongst the flour,
and pound of powder sugar, and pound of citron, and a pound of candid
orange, (cut your citron and orange in pretty large pieces) and a pound
of almonds cut in three or four pieces long way; then take sixteen
eggs, leaving out half of the whites, beat your sugar and eggs for half
an hour with a little salt; take three jills of cream, and three pounds
and a half of butter, melt your butter with part of the cream for fear
it should be too hot, put in between a jack and a jill of good brandy,
a quart of light yeast, and the rest of the cream, mix all your liquors
together about blood-warm, make a hole in the middle of your flour, and
put in the liquids, cover it half an hour and let it stand to rise,
then put in your currans and mix all together; butter your hoop, tie a
paper three fold, and put it at the bottom in your hoop; just when they
are ready to set in the oven, put the cake into your hoop at three
times; when you have laid a little paste at the bottom, lay in part of
your sweet-meats and almonds, then put in a little paste over them
again, and the rest of your sweet-meats and almonds, and set it in a
quick oven; two hours will bake it.

229. _To make_ ICEING _for this_ CAKE.

Take two pounds of double-refined sugar, beat it, and sift it through a
fine sieve; put to it a spoonful of fine starch, a pennyworth of
gum-arabic, beat them all well together; take the whites of four or
five eggs, beat them well, and put to them a spoonful of rose-water, or
orange-flower water, a spoonful of the juice of lemon, beat them with
the whites of your eggs, and put in a little to your sugar till you wet
it, then beat them for two hours whilst your cake is baking; if you
make it over thin it will run; when you lie it on your cake you must
lie it on with a knife; if you would have the iceing very thick, you
must add a little more sugar; wipe off the loose currans before you put
on the iceing, and put it into the oven to harden the iceing.

230. _To make a_ PLUMB CAKE.

Take five pounds of flour dried and cold, mix to it an ounce of mace,
half an ounce of cinnamon, a quarter of an ounce of nutmegs, half a
quarter of an ounce of lemon-peel grated, and a pound of fine sugar;
take fifteen eggs, leaving out seven of the whites, beat your eggs with
half a jill of brandy or sack, a little orange-flower