{"id":838,"date":"2016-12-14T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=838"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:14:38","slug":"17th-century-cake-bread-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2016\/12\/14\/17th-century-cake-bread-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"14th December – 17th Century Cake Bread Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cake Bread recipe from Jane Lorraine’s recipe book (Miscellaneous Manuscripts 5)<\/p><\/div>\n

Image and transcription (below) are taken from a page of Jane Lorraine’s recipe book. The recipe book contains lots of different recipe and was written in the 17th century by a woman called Jane Lorraine.<\/p>\n

Jane Lorraine lived in Northumberland. She is likely to have been the wife of Nicholas Loraine and probably a member of the Fenwick family (John James Fenwick in 1882 opened the shop Fenwicks which exists on a larger scale down Northumberland Street, Newcastle today).<\/p>\n

The recipe book is a collaboration between many different people. We can see that many different people contributed their recipes to it as there are mentions of different individuals within it (a total of 67 people), in addition to six different handwriting being identified within the text. Jane Lorraine put together the recipes by different individuals into one big recipe book.<\/p>\n

27. Cake Bread<\/em>
\nTake a peck of very fine flower two pound of sweat butter<\/em>
\nsix pound of currants to a quarter of an ounce of mace<\/em>
\na quarter of an ounce of synomond five nutmugs one<\/em>
\npound and a half of fine sugar let your spices and <\/em>
\nsugar be very finely beaten your currants washed picked<\/em>
\nand dryed put your spices into your flower a little salt<\/em>
\nmingled well together, put your butter in thin slices put in<\/em>
\nyour Corants and sugar mingle them well togeather put<\/em>
\nin two spounfuls of rose water a pinte of good ale yest<\/em>
\nput in as much Cold cream that is thick and sweat as will<\/em>
\nmake it into a past work it very well when you have done<\/em>
\nput your paste into a hot lining Cloth set it a while before<\/em>
\nthe fire mould it upon a table take a broad wooden peall lay<\/em>
\na sheat of broade paper strow it with flower lay your paste<\/em>
\non fashon it into a Cake prick it with a bodkin let it goe<\/em>
\ndown into the bottom then with a fether anoynt the kake<\/em>
\nwith melted butter strow good sugar finely beaten upon<\/em>
\nit set it in an oven that will not scorch<\/em><\/p>\n

This recipe book is part of Miscellaneous Manscripts<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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