Title: Ingredients for a Great Cake
Categories: Cake
Yield: 10 Servings

LISA CRAWLEY
1	lb	Butter; brought to a cream
1	lb	Flour
5/8	lb	White Sugar
1 1/3	lb	Currants
1/16		Worth Perfume
		Peel of 2 Oranges
3/16	pt	Canary
1/8	pt	Rosewater
8 2/3		Eggs; half ye whites
3/16	lb	Citron

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

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