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Recipe for Almond Cake and Lemon Cheesecake

Almond Cake
Take 4 egg Whites & Yolks, beat them
separately, ½ a pound lb of Jordan Almonds-
pound them small, 1 pound lb of double refine'd
sugar- pounded and sifted, half a pound lb of
flour drye’d before the fire, one lemon,
mix your eggs sugar and almonds together
and the juice of your lemons, grate in the
rind, do not put in the flour till it is
ready to put in the oven- Bake it one
hour -beat it 3 quarters of an hour
before the flour goes in -

Lemon Cheesecake
Take ½ pound lb of Butter- clarify it- ½ pound lb of suger beaten, & sifted- 6 Eggs leaving out
the whites of one- the peel of 3 lemons
grated, scoop out the pulp -take out the seeds
& put the peel to the juice of the lemon
stirring it well together & then put the clarifyed butter warm to the eggs, stirring it as it
goes in, when the butter is quite cold put in
the lemon juice stirring it all the time,
put them in pastes, half an hour will bake
them in a moderate oven -

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Charlotte Starkie

Gillespie Family

1782 to 1808

Gillespie Family

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Almond CakeTake 4 egg Whites & Yolks, beat them separately, ½ a pound of Jordan Almonds- pound them small, 1lb of double refined sugar- pounded and sifted, half a lb of flour dry’d before the fire, one lemon, mix your eggs sugar and almonds together and the juice of your lemons, grate in the rind, do not put in the flour till it is ready to put in the oven- bake it one hour -beat it 3 quarters of an hour before the flour goes in -

Lemon CheesecakeTake ½lb of Butter- clarify it- ½lb of suger beaten, & sifted- 6 eggs leaving out the whites of one- the peel of 3 lemons grated, scoop out the pulp -take out the seeds & put the peel to the juice of the lemon stirring it well together & then put the clarifyd butter warm to the eggs, stirring it as it goes in, when the butter is quite cold put in the lemon juice stirring it all the time, put them in pastes, half an hour will bake them in a moderate oven -