Lincoln Cake

Ingredients

1/2 pound butter
1 pound of sugar
1 pound flour
6 eggs
2 cupfuls sour cream (or milk)
1 nutmeg grated
1 teaspoonful cinnamon
1 tablespoonful rose-water
Teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water and added to the milk

Directions

Mix the butter and sugar and put with them the yolks whipped light, ther. the cream, spice, rose-water and flour and a double handful of citron, cut fine, and dredged with flour, and last of all the beaten whites of the eggs. Stir thoroughly and bake in a loaf, or in a card, using a square, shallow baking-pan. This is a good cake and keeps well. Flavor the frosting with lemon. The white of one egg can be left out for this purpose.