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Pound Cake

From Six little cooks, 1910
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This recipe was extracted from Six little cooks (1910) by Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pound cake." "Oh, we're always having pound-cake! I can't bear it! Please let us put that off till some other day, and give us something new." " So be it, then, but I'll give you the recipe while I think of it. That won't hurt you, at all events." No. 128— POUND CAKE. One pound sugar, one of flour, one of eggs, one of butter. Many people use but three-quarters of a pound of butter, and some add a glass of brandy

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