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Pound Cake

Name: Pound Cake
Yield: 5 servings
Ingredients: Mix a pound of sugar; three-quarters of a pound of butter; the yolks of eight eggs beaten to a froth; a pound of sifted flour; mace or nutmeg to taste; a quarter of a pound of citron or almonds blanched

From The Rural cook book, 1907

Serves 5

Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pound Cake. — Mix a pound of sugar with three-quarters of a pound of butter. When worked white, stir in the yolks of eight eggs beaten to a froth, then the whites. Add a pound of sifted flour and mace or nutmeg to taste. If you wish to have your cake particularly nice, stir in, just before you put it into the pans, a quarter of a pound of citron or al- monds blanch

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