Old Fashioned Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pound pulverized sugar
• 1 pound of butter
• 15 ounces of flour
• 10 eggs
• 1.5 tablespoons of brandy

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar, add the yolks of the eggs, well beaten, then the brandy.

2. 2

   Sift the flour three times, sifting it the last time into the batter alternately with the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs.

3. 3

   Grease and line a Turk's head pan, with paper, using two layers of paper for the bottom of the pan.

4. 4

   Pour the batter into it and bake in a moderate oven, 1.5 hours.

5. 5

   Keep the cake covered with paper while baking.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913 (1913) by Helen Bruce Wallace, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Old Fashioned Pound Cake (Miss Margaret S. Rutherford.) 1 pound pulverized sugar. 1 pound of butter. 186 15 ounces of flour. 10 eggs. 1% tablespoons of brandy

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