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Indian Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 8 eggs
• 1 pint of powdered sugar
• 1 pint of Indian meal, sifted
• 1/2 pint of wheat-flour
• 1/2 pound of butter
• 1 nutmeg, grated
• 1 tea-spoonful of cinnamon
• 1/2 glass of mixed wine and brandy

Instructions

Stir the butter and sugar to a cream. Beat the eggs very light. Stir the meal and eggs, alternately, into the butter and sugar. Add the spice and liquor. Stir all well. Butter a tin pan, put in the mixture, and bake it in a moderate oven.

This cake should be eaten while fresh.

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Source

Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats (1832).