A Good Madeira Cake

• Eggs, 4
• sugar, 6 oz.
• flour, 6 oz

Whisk four fresh eggs until they are as light as possible, then, continuing still to whisk them, throw in by slow degrees the following ingredients in the order in which they are written: six ounces of dry, pounded, and sifted sugar; six of flour, also dried and sifted;