Old Fashioned Pound Cake 1972
"Grandmas pound cake recipe. Makes a 10 x 6 inch loaf cake."
photo by Elly in Canada
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
1 loaf pan size cake
- Serves:
- 10
ingredients
- 1 2⁄3 cups white sugar
- 1 cup soft butter
- 2 cups cake flour or 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted then measured
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground mace
- 5 whole eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- Pre heat oven to 325 degrees.
- Grease loaf pan. Can line if desired.
- Cream butter and sugar until all granules are dissolved and you no longer feel them between your fingertips.
- Sift the flour and measure.
- Add the salt and mace.
- Sift all together once more.
- Add eggs one at a time, alternating with the flour to the creamed mixture.
- Beat until light and fluffy.
- Add the vanilla.
- Pour into prepared greased pan.
- Bake 325 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes.
- Using tester to test.
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Reviews
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Grandma's recipe was a hit! A nice buttery tasting pound cake. I will make this again! Very easy recipe and it baked in the time stated.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
andypandy
Canada
Grandmother of two boys, great grandmother of one ...worked in hardware and construction for forty years, read all cookbooks, watch all cook shows on tv. like to cook all types of new recipes.
