Ingredients For a Great Cake

--------------------------------LISA CRAWLEY-------------------------------- 1 lb Butter; brought to a cream

1 lb Flour

5/8 lb White Sugar

1 1/3 lb Currants

1/16 Worth Perfume

Peel of 2 Oranges 3/16 pt Canary

1/8 pt Rosewater

8 2/3 Eggs; half ye whites

3/16 lb Citron

No instructions were given. Taken from FRANTIC MOTHER COOKBOOK--a 1763 English recipe from a Cornish cookbook.