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"Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!"--James Beard

Pound Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
10 eggs (1 pint)
4 tbsp canned cream
3½ cups flour (White Lily-plain)
1 tsp vanilla extract
2½ cups sugar
1 tsp almond extract
1 cup oleo
1 tsp lemon extract
1 cup Crisco
Directions:
Directions:
Beat the eggs. While eggs are beating, combine the butter and sugar ½ cup at a time, alternating. Add cream and flavorings. Then add ½ cup flour, then egg, then flour, then egg, etc., adding flour last.

Pour into a prepared tube pan and bake at 300° for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is the cake everyone asks Granny to bring for gatherings. It’s a tradition! It is THE pound cake recipe. If Granny made you a pound cake for your birthday, this was the one she made.

 

 

 

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