Pound Cake

Ingredients

• one pound sugar
• one pound flour
• one pound butter
• one dozen eggs

Method

1. 1

   Sift and dry flour, cream butter well, gradually adding sugar and beating the mixture till very light.

2. 2

   Then beat eggs (whites and yolks separately) to a stiff froth, add them gradually to the sugar and butter alternately with the flour, till all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed.

3. 3

   Flavor to taste.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

POUND CAKE. One pound sugar, one pound flour, one pound butter, one dozen eggs

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