Pound Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of butter
• the same of sugar
• same of flour
• ten eggs
• third of a small nutmeg grated
• the grated peel of half a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the yolks of the eggs beaten light, then beat the whites to a stiff froth and add them alternately with the flour.

2. 2

   Flavor, put in a deep round pan and bake in a moderate oven.

3. 3

   Try with a broom splint.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 114. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pound-cake. Grate half a bar of chocolate, dissolve it in a tablespoonful of sweet milk, add sugar to sweeten it^ one egg beaten, and a teaspoonful of extract of vanilla ; stir it over the Are until it thickens, and spread over the top of the cake. * Cocoanut-cak6« One pound of sugar and half a pound of butter stirred to a cream, add a wine-glass of brandy, beat it well in, then one oocoanut grated, six eggs and three-quarters of a pound of flour Bake in one cake. * Ponnd-cako. One pound of butter, the same of sugar, same of flour, ten eggSy third of a small nutmeg grated, and the grated peel of half ft lemon

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.