White Mountain Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (2 weeks old)
• 4 cups flour
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 8 egg whites or 1 large cup

Method

1. 1

   Mix butter, add sugar a little at a time until light and fluffy.

2. 2

   Add milk to this mixture alternately with the flour and baking powder, which has been sifted together twice.

3. 3

   Beat well, add vanilla and lemon extract and blend well.

4. 4

   Beat egg whites until they stand in peaks.

5. 5

   Carefully fold into the first mixture.

6. 6

   Beat until very light and pour into greased pound cake mold and bake 275 F. until cake leaves sides of pan.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book (1948) by Central Methodist Church (Spencer, N.C.). Gertrude Bobbitt Circle, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE MOUNTAIN POUND CAKE 1 cup butter (2 weeks old) 4 cups flour 2 cups white sugar a/2 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup sweet milk or butter milk V2 teaspoon lemon extract 2 teaspoons baking powder or 2 8 egg whites or J large cup

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