Delicious Nut Cake Recipe

Old English Recipe, year 1600



Coffee cup is used for measure.



2 cups of sugar rolled fine or sifted

1 cup of butter--creamed together

3 cups of flour--sifted 4 times

1 cup of cold water

4 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately

2 large cups of walnut chopped or rolled

2 teaspoons of cream of tartar--level measure



Cream butter and sugar, stir in yolks, beat hard for 5 minutes, add

water, then flour, mix the tartar in it--then nuts, then beaten whites

of eggs. Bake 3/4 of an hour if loaf, or half hour if divided into two

portions or layers.

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