A Real Pound Cake

7 ingredients
5 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. (2 c.) sugar
  • 1 lb. (4 c.) flour
  • 1/2 lb. (1 c.) butter
  • 6 eggs (the whites and yolks beaten separately)
  • 3/4 c. milk
  • 1 tsp. soda
  • 2 tsp. cream of tartar

Directions

  1. 1
    Sift the soda and the cream of tartar into the flour. Rub the butter and sugar to a cream.
  2. 2
    Add one-quarter of the whites and yolks, next the flour and then the milk.
  3. 3
    Beat in the remaining yolks and mix in the remaining whites in that order.
  4. 4
    Have a not too easy oven ready (325°) and bake 1 1/4 hours.
  5. 5
    Test for doneness.

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