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Image 291 (unnumbered folio). Priced list of ingredients

Ingredients for a Plumb Cake £ s d £ s d
Eggs. 35. at 7 pr 2d* 0: 0 10
Butter 4lb at 7d – & One pound 7 ½d 0: 2. 11 ½
0: 3. 9 ½
Bot of Mrs Doubleday
2. lb of Raisons at 5d pr lb 0. 0. 10
¾ Stone of Curans* at 6/6 0: 4. 10 ½
j lb Almonds at 18d. 0: 1: 6
2. lb of Lemmon & Orange peel at 18d 0: 3: 0
2. Oz, Cinnamon at 13 0: 3: 3
¼ lb of Nutts at 10d. 0: 2: 6*
½ Stone* of Sugar at 6/6 0 1 7 ½
½ Quire* of Papers at 2 ½d 0 0 1 ¼
Flour ½ a Peck* 0. 0 9
Paid Baking 0. 0. 8 0. 19: 1 ¼
0: 17: 10
Right Febry 7th. 1760 1: 2: 10 ¾
£ s d
Half a pound of Plumb Cake. 0. 0. 6d
Lipsalve} Benjamin*, is a Sweet Gum from Java
} Storax*. A fragrant Syrian Gum

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Transcribed by JW and LF