Pound Cakes

Name: Pound Cakes
Ingredients: one pound and a half of flour; one pound of butter; one pound of fine white sugar; ten eggs; one gill of brandy; half a nutmeg grated; a teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon extract

From The housekeeper's companion, 1883

Turn out gently and let cool with paper until cut.

Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 139. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pound Cakes. — One pound and a half of flour, one pound df butter, one pound of fine white sugar, ten eggs, one gill of brandy, half a nutmeg grated, and a teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon extract

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