1 pound of sugar.
1 pound of butter,
12 eggs.
3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Flour to make soft dough–3 pounds.
Cream the butter and sugar together the same a for pound cake. Beat the eggs and mix them in then the powder, add some flavoring, then flour. Le the dough, after it has been worked smooth, stand few minutes before rolling it out. Sift sugar ove the sheet of dough before cutting out the cakes.
Whitehead’s Family Cook Book, 1891