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GRANDMA'S POUND CAKE This recipe has been passed down to me by my grandmother and to her by her mother, who used to bake it in a Dutch oven in the ground, with hot bricks on top. The bricks had to be just the right temperature for the pound cake to turn out properly. 2 c. flour (full c.) 1 rounded tsp. baking powder 1/2 scant tsp. salt 1 3/4 c. sugar 1 stick butter (at room temperature) 1 stick margarine (at room temperature) 1 tsp. vanilla 2 tsp. lemon extract 3/4 c. milk 4 eggs Cream butter and margarine until light and fluffy. Combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in sifter. Sift dry ingredients over creamed butter and margarine. Make well in middle of this and pour in 3/4 cup of milk. Mix until well blended. Put in extracts and mix. Add 4 eggs and beat until blended. Then beat 4 minutes on high speed. Grease and flour a tube pan. Pour batter in pan and hit pan on counter 20 times. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Bake 1 hour and 10 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. Let stand in pan for 20 minutes before turning out to cool. Ice with icing. Icing: about 1/3 stick margarine (at room temperature) juice from lemon about 3/4 lb. confectioners sugar dash of salt Put powdered sugar and salt on top of margarine and work it in. Add lemon juice until icing is the right consistency. This is a recipe from our database at Cookbooks On/Line! 1,000,000+ free recipes and free software at: http://www.cookbooks.com Accuracy is believed to be good, but is not guaranteed. This recipe posting is intended for personal use only. You can print a copy for yourself and/or your friends, but you cannot publish it or post it to any Internet or other public site without our permission. |