Brown Sugar Loaf Cake

1/2 cup butter
2 cups light brown sugar, packed
4 egg yolks
1 egg white
1/2 teaspoon baking soda or
    3 teaspoons baking powder*
1 cup milk, sweet or sour*
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
2 2/3 cups cake flour
Salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

* Use baking soda with sour milk or baking powder with sweet milk.

Heat oven to 350 degrees F.

Cream the butter and sugar. Add yolks one at a time, then the egg white. Beat well. Sprinkle nuts with some of the flour; add a little salt. Mix the remaining dry ingredients. Add alternately with the milk. Fold in nuts and vanilla extract last. If dough is too thick, add 2 tablespoons water. Bake in greased loaf pan for 45 minutes.