Pound Cake

This is my aunt Mildred's recipe for "plain cake" which is a pound cake. It's several years old, make with basic ingredients and tastes great all by itself or dressed up with strawberries, peaches or ice cream.

Prep Time15

Cook Time1 10

Total Time1 25

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: plain cake, pound cake

Servings:

Calories: 373kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

3 cup Sugar
3 cup Plain Flour
5 Eggs
1 cup Crisco Shortening Not oil.
1 cup Buttermilk
1 tsp Vanilla Flavoring
1 tsp Lemon Flavoring
½ tsp Baking Soda If using Baking "Powder" Use 1 1/2 tsp
½ tsp Salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 300 and prepare the pan by greasing it with Crisco. You use parchment paper at the bottom if you like.
Separate egg whites from the yolks and beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form, set the egg whites aside.
Cream sugar and Crisco together, and add the egg YOLKS one at a time. Add the buttermilk and flavorings. Sift four, salt, and baking soda together. Add flour to the mixture a little at a time.
Gently fold in the beaten egg whites. Don't over-mix. Spoon batter into prepared tube pan. Run a knife through the batter to help remove air bubbles.
Bake for an hour and 10 min. Check for doneness after one hour and consider the next ten minutes, it might or might not need it.
Cool on a rack for 15-30 minutes. Run a knife or cake spatula around the edge and around the center tube to loosen it up. Turn the cake onto a cake plate.

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Notes

Note: Nutritional facts are simple estimates and not calculated by a professional.

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