——————————–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.