Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

Puddings,

2 receipts in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

Cookery (Take teacupfuls of boiled rice)

Take 2 teacupfuls of boiled rice, cooled and mashed, 1 pint of milk, 1 egg, a handful of flour; season with a little salt. Have a pan of…

Cakes (Take a pound of sugar beat)

Take a pound of sugar, beat and sift it, a pound of well dried flour, a pound of butter, 8 eggs, and a pound of currants washed and picked…

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