Nun's Cake

Ingredients

• Beat one pound of butter to a cream, adding gradually a quarter of
• a pound of sifted sugar, beating both together; have ready the
• yolks of eighteen eggs, and the whites of ten, beaten separately;
• mix in the whites first, and then the yolks, and beat the whole
• for ten minutes; add two grated nutmegs, one pound and a half of
• flour, and mix them very gradually with the other ingredients; when
• the oven is ready, beat in three ounces of picked caraway-seeds.