Punctuation unchanged; intended reading may be
Take thirty Eggs, the Whites of fourteen (break twenty eight of them);
The passage appears to mean “separate twenty-eight of the thirty eggs, using fourteen of the whites and all the yolks.” The two whole eggs are used later in the recipe.
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Recipes that began or ended in mid-page were separated from adjoining recipes with a decorative border. The e-text has tried to replicate these borders as closely as possible, except for minor flaws in printing. Recipes that began at the top of a physical page have been given one of the two most “generic” borders:
A few decorative borders are best described as surprising.
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