Norfolk Cake
Beat to a cream: 1 teacup of butter. 6 eggs. 3 teacups of sugar. 1 teacup of cream. 4 teacups of flour. 1/2 nutmeg. 1 wine-glass of brandy. 1 pound raisins. 1 teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in cream.--Mrs. Dr. S.
Seventeen hundred recipes from the housewives of Old Virginia — Sally Lunn and beaten biscuit, brandy peaches and Brunswick stew — gathered in 1879 by Patrick Henry's granddaughter, with tributes from the First Lady down.
Beat to a cream: 1 teacup of butter. 6 eggs. 3 teacups of sugar. 1 teacup of cream. 4 teacups of flour. 1/2 nutmeg. 1 wine-glass of brandy. 1 pound raisins. 1 teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in cream.--Mrs. Dr. S.