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Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:12:30 GMT

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1. Preheat oven to 350°F

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2. Cream butter and sugar

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3. Whisk the eggs until they are light and fluffy

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4. Alternatively add eggs, flour and milk to butter and sugar until all are combined

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5. Mix in wine, brandy, cinnamon and nutmeg

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6. Mix in baking soda and powder that has been dissolved in vinegar and mix

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7. Mix the batter very well; incorporating air into your batter through mixing will help make the cake light.

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8. Bake in a well buttered cake pan or muffin tin at 350°F for about an hour or until a knife comes out of the thickest part of the cake clean.

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9. Let cool before unmolding and enjoying.

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WASHINGTON CAKE. –Stir together a pound of butter and a pound of sugar; and sift into another pan a pound of flour. Beat six eggs very light, and stir them into the butter and sugar, alternately with the flour and a pint of rich milk or cream; if the milk is sour it will be no disadvantage. Add a glass of wine, a glass of brandy, a powdered nutmeg, and a table-spoonful of powdered cinnamon. Lastly, stir in a small tea-spoonful of pearl-ash, or salaratus, that has been melted in a little vinegar; take care not to put in too much pearl-ash, lest it give the cake an unpleasant taste. Stir the whole very hard; put it into a buttered tin pan, (or into little tins,) and bake it in a brisk oven. Wrapped in a thick cloth, this cake will keep soft for a week.

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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches

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Eliza Leslie. 1840

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