Favorite Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup solid vegetable fat
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• Scant 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla flavor
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3 eggs
• Scant 1 1/2 cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Put solid fat into a bowl.

2. 2

   Add salt and lemon juice, and cream until smooth and white.

3. 3

   Gradually add sugar, stirring until very light and creamy.

4. 4

   Add eggs one at a time, beating until light.

5. 5

   Fold in flour, pour into an oiled pan, and bake in a slow oven for about 40 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Science of food & cookery (1921) by H. S. Anderson, page 121. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

l/2 teaspoon vanilla flavor Y^ cup boiling water y2 cup sugar % cup corn sirup 54 cup vegetable oil il/2 cups pastry flour i cup raisins or chopped nuts, or desiccated coconut ; or they may all be left out, and the cake baked plain, in oiled gem pans, or in layer cake tins, or loaf cake tins. Break the eggs into a bowl, add the salt and the vanilla, and beat with a Dover beater until thick. (The salt hastens the beat- ing of eggs.) Add the boiling water gradually, beating constantly; then add the sugar in the same manner. Next add the oil and the 210 (USE LEVEL MEASUREMENTS FOR ALL INGREDIENTS.) SCIENCE of FOOD and COOKERY corn sirup, and beat a few strokes; then add the sifted flour, and fold together. If raisins or chopped nuts are used, they should be added after the flour. Bake in oiled gem pans, in a medium slow oven, the same as loaf cake. FAVORITE POUND CAKE y* cup solid vegetable fat 2 teaspoons lemon juice Scant I cup sugar y2 teaspoon vanilla flavor l/8 teaspoon salt 3 eggs Scant \y-2. cups flour Put the solid fat into a bowl. Add the salt and the lemon juice, and cream with a spoon until smooth and white. Add the sugar gradually, and continue stirring until very light and creamy. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat until light. Fold in the flour, pour into an oiled pan, and bake in a slow oven, about 40 minutes, the same as loaf cake. FRUIT CAKE — Mr. Hook's I cup sugar 34 cup solid vegetable fat

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