Ingredients for a great cake

10 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
1poundsButter; brought to a cream
1poundsFlour
poundsWhite Sugar
1⅓poundsCurrants
1/16Worth Perfume
Peel of 2 Oranges
3/16pintCanary
pintRosewater
8⅔Eggs; half ye whites
3/16poundsCitron

Directions

LISA CRAWLEY

No instructions were given. Taken from FRANTIC MOTHER COOKBOOK--a 1763 English recipe from a Cornish cookbook.