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up three eggs, and add these, with a cup of sweet milk, warmed. Put into the
flour some grated nutmeg, and pounded allspice, mace, and cinnamon. Mix them
well together, and cut them in any shape you please. To be fried in hot lard.
BLACK CAKE.
Take a pound of fresh butter, and half a pound of lard, cream it well together,
and add one pound and a quarter of brown sugar. Beat in four eggs, one at a
time; put in a pint of new milk, and one grated nutmeg, a tea-spoonful of
pounded mace, and a tea-spoonful of soda. Gradually mix with this, one pound and
three-quarters of well-dried flour, and beat all well together. Then add a pound
and a half of raisins, stoned, and the same quantity of currants. Flavor with
wine and brandy, and bake one hour in a quick oven.
JOHNNY CAKE.
To a quart of sweet corn-meal, add a pint of warm water and a tea-spoonful of
salt; beat it up very hard; spread it evenly and smoothly on the board. Place
the board before a clear, moderate fire; when done, cut it in squares, and send
it to table without buttering it.
GINGER CAKE.
Take two quarts of flour, rub into it an even tea-cupful of lard, and a little
salt. Set a pint
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