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 come off presently; scurvygrass done thus is good against the scurvy; if it boils you will spoil it.

To make Violet Cakes.

Beat your sugar, wherein gum hath been steeped, put in the violets and the juice, and so work it well together with seered sugar, and dry them in a stove.

To make Wormwood Cakes.

Take one pound of double refined sugar sifted, mix it with three or four eggs well beat, and drop in as much chemical oil of wormwood as you please, drop them on papers; you may have them of various colours, by pricking them with a pin and filling the holes with the colour; the colours must be kept separate in small gallipots; for red, take a drachm of cochineal, some cream of tartar, and as much alum; tie them up severally in little bits of fine cloth, and put them to steep in a glass of water two or three hours; when you want the colours, press the bags in the water, and mix some of it in a little white of egg and sugar; saffron for the yellow, prepared as the red; for green mix blue with the saffron; for blue, put powder blue in water.

To make a Pound Cake.

Take a pound of butter, beat it in an earthen pan with your hand one way, till it is like a thick cream; then have ready twelve eggs, but half the whites; beat them well, and beat them up with the butter, a pound of flour beat in it, a pound of sugar, and a few caraways; beat it all well