Nut Cake #1

Ingredients

• Two cups of sugar
• Two-thirds cup of butter
• Four eggs
• Two-thirds cup of milk
• Three cups of flour
• Three teaspoons of Dixie baking powder
• One cup of nuts (currants maybe substituted for nuts)
• Icing

Directions

1. Cream the butter and sugar.
2. Beat the eggs very light, all together.
3. Add the eggs to the butter and sugar.
4. Add the milk, flour, baking powder, and nuts.
5. Bake in shallow baking pan until a straw will come out without anything sticking to it.
6. Cut into squares with icing.

— Miss May Williams

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Michael Davis
Louisiana Anthology
March 14, 2022