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"The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe."--John Gould, Monstrous Depravity, 1963

Pecan Pound Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 1/2 cups self rising flour
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups oil
1 cup evaporated milk
5 eggs
2 cups chopped pecans
1 Tsp. Vanilla

Mixture for top after baking:
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
Directions:
Directions:
Mix all the ingredients for the cake. Pour into a well greased and sugared bundt pan.

Place in a cold oven at 325º for 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 1/2 hours depending on oven.

When almost finished baking, mix the sugar and water together in a sauce pan and bring to boil until sugar is dissolved.

Pour over the cake once out of the oven and let sit in pan for about an hour.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe is known by my family as the $10,000 pound cake. Back when we lived in Florida just outside of Trenton we had lots of granddaddy live oak trees. One year a severe storm blew over 3 huge trees in the back field. I called around to get estimates to get the trees and debris removed. The estimates were all about ten thousand dollars, which I didn't have being a single mother at the time with five kids. One day about a month later I heard chainsaws and heavy equipment, I looked in the back field and my neighbor Buck Mitchell and his sons were out there working on clearing those trees for me. I went back there to tell them to stop that I could not afford to pay them. Buck said all he wanted was every now and then for me to bake him one of my pecan pound cakes. So, the pound cake became known as my $10,000 Pound Cake! Over the next year Buck asked me about 3 times to make him a pound cake, which I was more than happy to do. Buck and his boys always looked out for me and my kids, best neighbors you could ever ask for. I dearly miss Mr. Buck Mitchell, may he rest in peace.

 

 

 

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