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To make a rich seed cake

Take a pound and a quarter of flour well dried, a pound of butter, a pound of loaf sugar, beat and sifted, eight eggs and two ounces of caraway seed, one grated nufmeg, and its weight in cinnamon. Beat the butter into a cream, put in the sugar, beat the whites of the eggs and the yolks separately, them mix them with the butter and sugar. Beat in the flour, spices and seed, a little before sending it away. Bake it two hours in a quick oven.

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