American Cookery: The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables

make into two loaves, bake one and half hour. _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 cases 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. RUSK.--_To make_. No. 1. Rub in half pound sugar, half pound butter, to four pound flour, add pint