The English house-vvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Fine bread.
Take a quarter of a pound of fine sugar well beaten, and as much flower finely boulted, with a quantity of Aniseedes a little bruised, and mingle all together; then take two egges and beate them very well, whites and all; then put in the mingled stuffe aforesaid, and beate all together a good while, then put it into a mould, wi∣ping the bottome euer first with butter to make it come out easily, and in the baking turne it once or twice as you shall haue occasion, and so serue it whole, or in sli∣ces at your pleasure.
