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Title: Ingredients for a Great Cake
Categories: Cakes
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.