Pound Cake. Recipe No. 2.
Reading edition
Take: White sugar, 1 lb.; butter, ¾ lb.; eggs, 10; flour, 1 lb.; currants, 1 teacupful; mace, ½ teaspoonful; nutmeg, ½ (grated).
Beat a pound of fine white sugar, and three quarters of a pound of butter to a cream; beat up ten eggs, the whites and yolks separately; add the yolks to the butter and sugar, half a teaspoonful of mace, and half a grated nutmeg; mix well together, and add the whites of the eggs; stir in a pound of flour thoroughly, and then add a teacupful of currants, washed and dried. Bake in a rather quick oven.
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