This section is from the book "The London Art Of Cookery and Domestic Housekeepers' Complete Assistant", by John Farley. Also available from Amazon: The London Art of Cookery.
Boil a quart of cream, with a laurel leaf; take it out, and break in half a pound of Naples biscuits, half a pound of butter, some sack, nutmeg, and a little salt. Take it off the fire, cover it up, and when almost cold, put in two ounces of blanched almonds beaten fine, and the yolks of five eggs. Mix all together, and bake it half an hour in a moderately heated oven. Before it is put into the oven grate a little sugar over it.
 
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