Pound Cake

Ingredients

• one pound of sugar
• one pound of butter
• ten eggs
• three tablespoonfuls of water
• one pound of flour
• a large tablespoonful of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, stir in yolks of eggs, then alternate flour and beaten whites of eggs.

2. 2

   One white may be reserved for icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Landmarks club cook book (1903) by The Landmarks club, Los Angeles, Calif., page 101. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

POUND CAKE. The success of the cake is dependent upon the mixing. Beat one pound of butter to a cream and add to it one pound of flour into which has been well sifted a full teaspoonful of mace. Add to the well beaten yolks of ten eggs one pound of sugar, and beat until the sugar is dissolved ; beat both mix- tures together thoroughly ; then add the well beaten whites of the ten eggs and bake in medium oven. Much depends upon the baking. Carrie T. Waddilove. POUND CAKE. One pound of sugar, one pound of butter, creamed ; ten eggs, yolks stirred into butter and sugar, the whites beaten stiff ; three tablespoonfuls of water, one pound of flour, a large ta- blespoonful of baking powder

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