Centennial Cake, page 163

Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 4 cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 5 eggs. Beat the eggs separately, and add the whites last. This may be baked in a loaf or divided into two equal parts, after it is well stirred. To one half add 2 teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful each of cloves, nutmeg, ginger and allspice. Bake the same as marble cake.

Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.