Pound Cake

Ingredients

• ONE pound flour
• one of butter
• one of sugar
• nine eggs

Method

1. 1

   Wash butter and beat it with flour.

2. 2

   Beat egg yolks and sugar, mix all together, add beaten egg whites and baking powder.

3. 3

   Bake for one hour and fifteen minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them (1890) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pound cake. Bake in muffin-pans, heated and well- buttered, dropping a tablespoonful of the batter in each ring. Baked in a oven that is well-heated at first, and grows cooler as they bake. One-third of a teacup of currants mixed in is an improvement. -4u<j ^/ ^i^ti: 196 STATESMEN'S DISHES; SAUCISSONS DE CHOCOLAT. BY MISS. BESSIE SNIDEE. (Daughter of Representative from Minnesota.) £AKE two cakes of " German's sweet choco- late," put in a pan, and the pan in another larger one of hot water ; leave on the stove until thoroughly melted, taking care that nothing whatever is put in the chocolate; then keeping it in the pan of hot water, take to the table and pour in honey until the chocolate is easily molded ; mix in a cupful of blanched sweet almonds cut into pieces about the size of a pea, a pinch each of powdered cloves and cinnamon. Then mold with the hands into rolls about five inches long and an inch thick ; wrap in tin foil cut previously into sheets of the right size. Put in the refrigerator to cool. The little sausages will keep for months, and in fact grow better with age, to my mind. To serve them, slice into thin slices, and put in a dainty little bonbon dish. AND HOW TO COOK THEM. 197 PECAN CAKE. BY MRS. J. K. M'KEE. (Daughter of the President.) alsTE cup of butter, two and a half cups of flour, two cups of sugar, one-half cup of sweet milk, whites of eight eggs, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Beat together butter and sugar, add a little of the beaten egg ; then put in a cup of flour, then some milk, then again flour and milk; put all the milk in with the second cup of flour, then add the rest of the egg. ICING TO FILL AND PUT OVER TOP. Whites of six eggs beaten stiff with powdered sugar, one small can of grated pineapple, and two cups of pecans, chopped fine. The nuts should soak awhile in the pineapple before mixing them into the egg and sugar. Put whole pecan kernels over the top of the cake while the icing is still soft. <z<*>t^a^rh- Ph-VcL. 198 STATESMEN'S DISHES; POUND CAKE. BY MISS MARY E. TURPIE. (Daughter of Senator from Indiana.) j»NE pound flour, one of butter, one of sugar, nine eggs

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