For the receipt (recipe), To Make Fritters of Spinach, first Take a good deal of spinach and wash it clean.  Then boil it in fair water.  When it is boiled take it forth and let the water run from it.

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The receipt (recipe), To make an excellent Plum Cake, after being iced with an icing made from egg white, sugar, and orange flower water are placed back in the bake oven so the icing will  set but not brown.  The cakes are now ready for the table.

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If you ice it (To make an excellent Plum Cake), take half a Pound of Double-refin’d Sugar sifted: then put some of the Sugar, and beat it up with the White of an Egg, and beat it with a Whisk, and a little Orange-flower Water, but do not over-wet it, then strew in all the Sugar by degrees; and beat it all near an Hour; the Cake will take so long a baking; then draw it, and wash it with icing, and put it in again.

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The receipt (recipe), To make an excellent Plum Cake, has just come out of the bake oven and I easily removed the cake hoops.  Next step is the icing.

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The batter for the receipt (recipe) for To make an excellent Plum Cake was baked in the bake oven in eight small cake hoops and one large cake hoop.

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To prepare the receipt (recipe), To make an excellent Plum Cake, for the bake oven, a tin baking sheet was lined with brown paper buttered where the cake hoops would be placed and the cake hoop sides buttered before adding the batter.

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The final and fourteenth ingredient for the receipt (recipe), To make an excellent Plum Cake, is Candied Orange and Lemon-peel slic’d.  The candied lemon peel has already been added and I am using a rocker knife to slice the candied orange peel.

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After a large nutmeg is grated for the receipt (recipe), To make an excellent Plum Cake, the thirteenth ingredient is a few Carraway-seeds.

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In addition to an Ounce of Cloves and Mace, one large Nutmeg grated was added to the other eleven ingredients for the receipt (recipe), To make an excellent Plum Cake.

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The spice that was weighed and prepared for the receipt (recipe), To make an excellent Plum Cake, was a quarter of an Ounce of Cloves and Mace.  After being made fine, they were added to the batter of flour, currants, raisins, blanched almonds beat fine with rose water, butter, cream, ale-yeast, saffron steeped in sack, and ten eggs (but only half the whites).

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