Take a good morning milk cheese, or better, of some eight pound weight, stamp it in a mortar, and beat apound of butter amongst it, and apound of sugar, then mix with it beaten mace, twopound of currans well picked and washed, a penny manchet grated, or apound of almonds blanched and beaten with fine rose-water, and some salt; then boil some cream, and thicken it with six or eightyolks of eggs, mixed with the other things, work them well together, and fill the cheesecakes, make the curd not too soft, and make the paste of cold butter and water according to these forms.