Heck, I got cookbooks older'n that! Try the amount of stuff needed:

Two quarts of flour (okay...was the quart the same size in 1750 as now?)
A piece of chocolate the size of a walnut (hulled? shelled?)
Two dozen eggs (like I can afford that! And what size were the eggs?)

Heat your oven and rake out the coals... (I have three electric ovens and a toaster oven availble, not to mention two microwaves....)

Actually, I can do it. I also can do Dutch oven cooking. I love old cookbooks.