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Recipe for Small Cakes and Veal Balls.

Small Cakes
¼ lb fresh butter ¼ pound lb white sugar
work it all together with your hands
till the butter is melted- then put
in the yolks of 3 eggs & work it
again then ¼ pound lb of flour put in by
degrees still working it then
¼ pound lb of currants then make it in
small cakes & lay them in a tin
to bake - let your tin be floure‘d, you
may put in a little rose water-

Veal Balls
1 pound lb of veal 1/2 pound  lb of Beef Suet
4 Eggs, only 2 whites,4 Rusks or the
crumb of a halfpenny Roll soake’d
in Milk, a little parsley choppe’d
a little Onion & lemon peel-
roll it in 3 balls- fry them in
butter of a nice brown, & then stew
them in Veal broth, thicken the liquor
they are stewe’d in with
flour & a little butter-
for sauce squeeze a little lemon-

Charlotte Starkie

Gillespie Family

1782 to 1808

Gillespie Family

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Small Cakes¼ lb fresh butter ¼ lb white sugar- work it all together with your hands till the butter is melted- then put in the yolks of 3 eggs and work it again then ¼ lb of flour put in by degrees still working working then ¼ lb of currants then make it in small cakes &  lay them in a tin to bake - let your tin be flour‘d, you may put in a little rose water-

Veal Balls1lb of veal 1/2lb of Beef Suet 4 Eggs, only 2 whites,4 Rusks or the crumb of a halfpenny Roll soak’d in Milk, a little parsley chop’d a little Onion & lemon peel- roll it in 3 balls- fry them in butter of a nice brown, & then stew them in Veal broth, thicken the liquor they are stew’d in with flour & a little butter- for sauce squeeze a little lemon-

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