The Peper Cake will ceep 2 yrs

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Title: The Peper Cake will ceep 2 yrs
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for making a spice cake with a variety of spices and oranges.
Transcript: The Peper Cake will ceep 2 yrs

[inserted left margin: 14] Take 3 pound of treakle mace & cloves of each half an ounce 2 large nut megs half a quarter of refined Ginger the like quantity of Cara way sedes a litele bet peper 2 large Candded Oranges Piell Cut very small mix all these together mix all these in the treakele, warm in a pot of warm water take as much wheat floure as the Treakele will make up in to a past as stif as bread paist work it soundly & sprinkele a litele [S]ack upon it it will make it work smouth then make it up
Subject: See all items with this value mace (spice); See all items with this value cloves; See all items with this value nutmeg; See all items with this value ginger; See all items with this value caraway; See all items with this value black pepper; See all items with this value oranges; See all items with this value water; See all items with this value flour; See all items with this value cakes; See all items with this value baking; See all items with this value food preparation; treacle; See all items with this value caraway; pepper; sack
Contributor: Ochsner, Elizabeth; Landry, Elena; Le, Vincent
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
Identifier: 14

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Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Food; Breads & Baked Goods