Cake (Golden)

Ingredients

• lb butter
• lb white sugar
• 3 cup flour
• cup milk
• 6 egg yolks
• 1 egg white
• 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar
• teaspoonful carbonate of soda
• 20 drop essence of almonds

Instructions

1. Stir the butter to a cream and mix it with the white sugar.
2. Whisk the yolks of 6 eggs with the white of an egg, and add them to the sugar and butter.
3. Then add 3 cups of flour, the milk, and 20 drops of essence of almonds.
4. Lastly add the soda and the teaspoon of cream of tartar.
5. Put into a buttered mould dusted with fine biscuit.
6. Bake in a moderate oven for one and a half hours.