Step 1

Wash the salt from a pound of butter, and rub it till it is soft as cream

Step 2

Have ready a pound of flour sifted, one of powdered sugar, and twelve eggs well beaten; put alternately into the butter, sugar, flour, and the froth from the eggs--continuing to beat them together till all the ingredients are in, and the cake quite light.

Step 3

Add some grated lemon peel, a nutmeg, and a gill of brandy; butter the pans, and bake them.