Take 5 pound of flour & dry it well and 5 pound of currants and one of chopt raisons and mix with the flour then take half an ounce of cinnamon a good nutmeg half a quarter of an ounce of mace & one pound of Sugar and a little Salt and mix with it near the fire then take almost a quart of cream and melt it in a pound and half of good butter make 2 holes in the flour and put this into one then beat 16 eggs but half the whites and strain them with a pint and half of good ale yest put to it Sack and rosewater a quarter of a pint of each mix it and put it into ye other hole of your flour, and let it stand against the fire to warme then mix it near the fire and cover it with a hot cloth for a quarter of an hour to rise then strow in a quarter of a pound of carraway comfets let it take ye air as little as possible ye oven must be hot an hour will bake it.
158. To make Jelly of Currants or any other suteable fruit.
Strip your currants into an earthen pot & set it into a kittle of water let it boyle till they are broken then strain out the jelly from them and the weight of it in loafe Sugar put the Sugar in your preserving pan with water enough to melt it, then put in your jelly let it boyle & scumme it as the scumme riseth till it comes to a thick jelly but not hard you must stop ye pot very close that the water get not into it.
159. For the Yellow or Black Jaundise.
Make a wine pint of clear white wine posset drink without curd then take half a quarter of an ounce of the oldest castle Soape you can get scrape it thin and put it into as much of the posset drink very hot to desolve the castle Soape as the party can well drink at a draft drink it as warme as you can going to bed and in the morning fasting the remainder of ye posset drink fast at least one hour after it thus do 3 nights and mornings and yn but once in a year unless occasion be to take it oftner & t’will cure them.
160. For Deafness by reason of a Cold.
Take a drop or 2 of the oyle of rue heat it and drop it into ye ears and be sure to keep the head warme.
161. To take away the Felme out of the Eyes.
Take a new laid egg and make a little hole in the top or one end and take out the yolke and white of it and put in fair running water or red rose water or fennell water a white copperice bruised and as much comeing seed as you can hold between a finger and thumb and put them all into ye egg shell and put ye shell upon some coles & let them boyle a little & let it stand till tis cold & nights and mornings drop a drop or 2 into the eye & close the eyeled upon it and in a little time twill cure them.