the White of an Egg beaten together, and put it into the Oven again, decorate with gold leaf The Queen ‐ like Coifer or Rich Cabinet by Hannah Wolley 1670
To Make a Good Cake
Take half a peck of flour, three pounds of butter, some nutmeg, cloves
and mace, cinnamon, ginger and a pound of sugar; mingle them well together with the flour, then take four pounds of currants well washed, picked and dried in a warm cloth, a little ale-yeast, twelve eggs, a quart of cream or good milk warmed, half a pint of sack [a sweat fortified wine], a quartern of rosewater. Knead it well, and let it very lithe, lay it in a warm cloth for half an hour against the fire. Then make it up with the white of an egg, beaten with a little butter, rosewater and sugar. Put it into the oven and let it stand an hour and a half.” The Gentlewoman’s Cabinet Unlocked published in 1664.
An Excellent Boilled Salad
To make an excellent compound boil'd Sallat: take of Spinage well washt two or three
handfuls, and put it into faire water and boile it till it bee exceeding soft and tender as pappe; then put it into a Cullander and draine the water from it, which done, with the backside of your Chopping-knife chop it and bruise it as small as may bee: then put it into a Pipkin with a good lump of sweet butter and boile it over again; then take a good handfull of Currants cleane washt and put to it, and stirre them well together, then put to as much Vinegar as will make it reasonable tart, and then with sugar season it according to the taste of the Master of the house, and so serve it upon sippets. The English Huswife, 1615