boyling they do not harden but take them off the fire and when they are quite cold tye them up in your pot very close to keep for your spending remember to take out the apples before you put in your oranges or that they be so tender as to make the sirrop. Probatum. 348. _A Cake for Ordinary Uses._ Take 4 pound of fine flour warm it in an earthen pan by the fire then break in a pound of fresh butter and a pound of sugar mixing both very well into y^r dryed flour then take 10 eggs put in but 3 of the whites and beat them very well then put to your eggs when well beaten 3 spoonfulls of rosewater and a quarter of a pint of sack a quart of good ale yest more yest if not very good a pint of cream boyled and cooled again some salt a nutmeg grated and some cloves & mace beaten also small mixing all very well together and warm it milk warm & so pour it to your flour very well covering it up warm for a quarter of an hour then put in a pound of raisons of the Sun stoned and cut small 3 pound of currants clean washt rubbed and dryed all which mixt very well together and put it into a paper hoop and set it in a oven as hot as for small bread and let it stand one hour and a quarter which will be long enough. 349. _Madame Brewen’s French Way to make ye Runnet or Trifle Cream._ Take the blossomes of hartiechokes when they blow and keep them dry all ye year for your use as you do other flowers and when you would make this cream put a few of these blossomes in about a spoonfull of flowers to a pint of cream or new milk and it will turn it as well as runnet and give a more pleasant flavour. 350. _Cowslips into Plummes to make Wine._ Instead of cowslips take Plummes and slit them and put them into a vessel with a tap in it then take as many gallons of water to your Damsens as you please & to every gallon of water a pound of Powder Sugar and boyle it till it be clear of ye Scumme then pour it on your Damsens into your vessel boyling hot first puting in with your Plummes some raisons of the Sun Stoned so stop it up 5 or 6 days then draw it off through a strainer and when the vessel is clean pour it in again when it’s strain’d and set it to working with a toast spred with ale yest and let it worke and after working let it stand 4 or 5 days a clearing then draw it into bottles and put a raison of the Sun Ston’d and a nob of Sugar in each bottle & stop it loosly 2 or 3 days else they will fly but afterwards stop your bottles as fast as you can and set them very coole. Probatum est By ye Lady Seymour. 351. _My Lady Seymours Pancake._