Loaf Cake
369. Four cups of flour,
Four cups of sugar,
Two cups of butter,
Six eggs,
Three table spoonsful of brandy,
Two table spoonsful of rose-water,
One grated nutmeg,
One tea spoonful of ground cinnamon,
One cup of milk,
One table spoonful of dissolved salæratus.
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, whisk the eggs very thick, and stir them into the butter and sugar, add the flour, and beat the whole very hard. Add the milk, spice and liquor.
Butter an earthen cake-mould or iron pan, pour in the mixture, and bake about two hours in a moderate oven.
This is a plain cake, and is very good for a lunch.
Instead of the brandy, grated lemon peel may be added.