Nut Cake
Take two cupfuls of sugar, three cups of flour, one cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, four eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, (cream tarter, two teaspoonfuls), two cups of chopped English walnuts or hickery nuts.
Four hundred recipes from Auburn, New York, 1881 — the oldest cookbook here, and the only one written by a woman for herself.
Take two cupfuls of sugar, three cups of flour, one cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, four eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, (cream tarter, two teaspoonfuls), two cups of chopped English walnuts or hickery nuts.