Pound Cake (50 year old recipe)

Ingredients

• 3 cups sugar
• 3 cups flour
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
• + cup margarine (1 stick)
• ltsp. baking powder
• dash of salt
• 1} tsp. vanilla
• 14 tsp. lemon
• 1 cup milk

Method

1. 1

   Have butter and eggs at room temperature.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, one at a time and beat well after each addition.

3. 3

   Add baking powder and salt to flour.

4. 4

   Add dry ingredients alternately with milk.

5. 5

   Add flavoring.

6. 6

   Pour into large tube pan.

7. 7

   START IN COLD OVEN.

8. 8

   Bake 1 hour and 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes from our hearth (1960) by N.C.) Advent Moravian Church (Winston-Salem, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

POUND CAKE (50 year old recipe) 3 cups sugar 3 cups flour 6 eggs l cup butter (2 sticks) + cup margarine (1 stick) ltsp. baking powder dash of salt 1} tsp. vanilla 14 tsp. lemon 1 cup milk

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