Nut Cake.
Reading edition
Take: Sugar, 1½ cupfuls; butter, ½ cupful; eggs, 3; milk, ½ cupful; flour, 2½ cupfuls; cream-tartar, 1 teaspoonful; soda, ½ teaspoonful; hickory-nut meats (or any other kind), 1 cupful.
Beat together one and a half cupfuls of coffee-sugar, half a cupful of butter, and three eggs, to a light froth; add alternately the half cup of milk in which the soda has been dissolved, and the two and a half cups of flour with which the cream-tartar has been sifted; add the half cupful of nuts and bake in one loaf.
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