Sugar, 1½ cupfuls;
Butter, ½ cupful;
Eggs, 3;
Milk, ½ cupful;
Flour, 2½ cupfuls;
Cream-tartar, 1 teaspoonful;
Baking soda, ½ teaspoonful;
Hickory-nut meats (or any other kind), 1 cupful.
Beat together one and a half cupfuls of coffee-sugar, half a cupful of butter, and three eggs, to a light froth; add alternately the half cup of milk in which the soda has been dissolved, and the two and a half cups of flour with which the cream-tartar has been sifted; add the half cupful of nuts and bake in one loaf.