Pound Cake
10 eggs 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg 2 teaspoons vanilla Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the yolks of the eggs beaten light; then beat the whites to a stiff froth and add them alternately with the flour; flavor; put in two deep, buttered pans and bake in a moderate oven from forty to fifty minutes. 1/2 pound butter 1/2 pound sugar 1/2 pound flour 5 eggs