A Good Soda Cake

• Flour, 1 lbs.
• butter, ½ lbs.
• sugar,

Break down half a pound* of fresh butter into a pound of fine dry flour, and work it into very small crumbs; mix well with these half a pound of sifted sugar, and pour to them first, a quarter of a pint of boiling milk, and next, three well-whisked eggs; add some grated nutmeg, or fresh lemon-rind, and eight