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IMPROVED LADY McMILLIN CAKE

1 cup butter. 2 cups sugar. Whites and yolks 6 eggs or 12 yolks beaten very light. 1 cup sweet milk. 3 3/4 cups flour. 2 rounded or 4 level teaspoons baking powder. 2 teaspoons cinnamon. 1 tablespoon (heaping) cocoa. 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg. 1 cup blackberry jam. 1/2 cup cordial or whisky. Cream butter, add half sugar to butter; beat very light. Beat yolks light with rest of sugar. Sift flour several times with baking powder, and add alternately with milk and whites. Mix spices and cocoa with cordial; add to batter; gently stir in jam last.