POUND CAKE

Ingredients

• 1 pound of flour
• 1 pound of sugar
• 1 pound of butter
• 12 eggs
• 2 slightly rounded teaspoons of baking powder
• 2 teaspoons extract of lemon or vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add flour, beat yolks and add sugar, whip whites and add gradually to flour, add baking powder mixed with a little flour, then extract, bake in slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from San Rafael cook book, 1906 (1906) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

POUND CAKE— Louise Meissner. 1 lb butter, 1 lb sifted sugar, 1 lb flour which must be warmed before- sifting, 10 eggs and the juice and rind of % lemon. Mix Uie butter and sugar well then add the yolksof the eggs one at a time mixing thor- oughly then the lemon, next the flour, putting in spoonful by spoonful' and stir % hour. Add the whites and a small teaspoon of baking pow- der and bake 1% hours in a slow oven. POUND CAKE— Mrs. W. F. Jones. 1 pound of flour, 1 pound of sugar, 1 pound of butter, 12 eggs, 2" slightly rounded teaspoons of baking powder, 2 teaspoons extract of lemon or vanilla

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