Virginia Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pound sugar
• 1 pound Swans Down flour
• 1/4 pound butter
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup water (cold)
• 2 full teaspoons Rumford baking powder
• Pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs separately, cream butter, then add sugar, little at a time, then yolk of eggs, then water, then the flour, salt and baking powder sifted twice.

2. 2

   Fold whites of eggs in last, don’t light the gas oven until the cake is ready to go in, bake forty-five minutes in a slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Central cook book (1924) by N.C.). Circle Number Three Central Methodist Church (Raleigh, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Virginia Pound Cake 1 pound sugar. 1 pound Swans Down flour. 14 pound butter. 5 eggs. 1 cup water (cold). 2 full teaspoons Rumford baking Pinch of salt

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