Antique Cake!

This is a post on the Betty Crocker website:

Butter Cake

You must take a dish of butter, and beat it like cream with your hands, two pounds of fine sugar well beat, three pounds of flour well dried, and mix them in with the butter, twenty-four eggs, leave out half the whites, and then beat all together for an hour. Just as you are going to put it into the oven, put in a quarter of an ounce of mace, a nutmeg beat, a little fack (?) or brandy, and feeds (?) or currants, just as you please. (I don't know about you but I don't know the difference between a fack or feeds. And my goodness, wouldn't your arm get tired after beating the batter for an hour?)



We have a facsimile copy of the first cookbook published by an American in American: American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons, 1796.