Mix a pound of sugar with three-quarters of a pound of butter. When
worked white, stir in the yelks of eight eggs, beaten to a froth, then
the whites. Add a pound of sifted flour, and mace or nutmeg to the
taste. If you wish to have your cake particularly nice, stir in, just
before you put it into the pans, a quarter of a pound of citron, or
almonds blanched, and powdered fine in rosewater.