Cakes and Frostings

Butter Pound Cake

  • 2 cups Butter
  • 2 scant cups Sugar
  • 9 large Eggs
  • 4 cups Cake flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cream of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla flavoring
  • 1 teaspoon Almond flavoring

    • Cream butter thoroughly. Slowly add sugar. Cream until consistency of thick cream. Sift cake flour before measuring,resift with cream of tartar, and salt three times. Add 2 tablespoons of flour and 1 egg at a time in the mixer until all the flour and eggs are used. Add flavoring, mixing until thoroughly blended. Pour batter into two greased loaf panslined with heavy waxed paper. Bake at 325°F for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

    This recipe courtesy of the From My Kitchen Cookbook. 

    Contributed by Jim and Shirley Taylor of Cumberland, ME. 

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