Common Sense in the Household

Nut-Cake. ✠

2 cups sugar.

1 cup butter.

3 cups flour.

1 cup cold water.

4 eggs.

1 teaspoonful soda.

2 teaspoonfuls cream-tartar.

2 cupfuls kernels of hickory-nuts or white walnuts, carefully picked out, and added last of all.