To Make a Cake

Ingredients

• eight wine quarts of flower
• one pound of loaf Sugar
• one ounce of Mace
• thirty Eggs
• fifteen whites
• a quart of new Ale-yest
• a pint of Rosewater
• a pint and half of Cream
• four pounds and three quarters of Butter
• twelve pounds of Currants

Method

1. 1

   Beat the eggs well and mix with the ale-yeast.

2. 2

   Strain into the flour, add rosewater and melted butter.

3. 3

   Stir quickly with hands and let it rise covered for a quarter of an hour.

4. 4

   Add well-dried currants, mix, and pour into a buttered tin hoop.

5. 5

   Bake for over an hour and a quarter.

6. 6

   Prepare icing with sugar, egg whites, and rosewater while the cake bakes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 128. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO MAKE A CAKE Take eight wine quarts of flower ; one pound of loaf Sugar beaten and searsed ; one ounce of Mace, beat it very fine : then take thirty Eggs, fifteen whites, beat them well ; then put to them a quart of new Ale-yest ; beat them very well together, and strain them into your flower ; then take a pint of Rosewater, wherein six grains of Ambergreece and Musk have been over night. Then take a pint and half of Cream or something more, and set it on the fire, and put into it four pounds and three quarters of Butter ; And when it is all melted, take it off the fire and stir it about, until it be pretty cool ; And pour all into your flower, and stir it up quick with your hands, like a lith pudding ; Then dust a little flower over it, and let it stand covered with a Flan- nel, or other woollen cloth, a quarter of an hour before the fire, that it may rise ; Then have ready twelve pounds of Currants

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.