Gold Cake

Ingredients

• Half cup of butter
  
• Two cups of sugar
• Six eggs
• Half cup of milk 
• Half teaspoonful of soda
• One teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• Bag of flour
• One teaspoonful of cinnamon (optional)
• Half nutmeg (optional)
• Currants and raisins (optional)

Directions

1. Stir to a cream with butter and sugar.
2. Add yolks of six eggs into
   mixture and beat very stiff.
3. Add milk and soda into the mixture. 
4. Mix cream of tartar with flour until thick as cup cake. 
5. Flavor cake with cinnamon, nutmeg, or currants and raisins. 

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Lindsay Fortenberry
Louisiana Anthology
June 10, 2021