pound cake(lemon or plain)
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Years ago a friend gave me this recipe in her own handwriting. It has truly stood the test of time. My entire family loves this cake! Thank you Crystal for sharing with us!
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yield
8 - 10
prep time
30 Min
cook time
1 Hr 30 Min
Ingredients For pound cake(lemon or plain)
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3 stickbutter(land of lakes, salted) @ room temperature
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3 csugar
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6 lgeggs
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3 1/2 cplain flour
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1/2 tspbaking powder
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1 cmilk
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1/2 tspvanilla extract(you can use 1 tsp and leave off the lemon if you prefer to have plain pound cake)
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1/2 tsplemon extract
How To Make pound cake(lemon or plain)
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1Pre-heat oven to 325 Grease a tube pan and line the bottom with wax paper.(Do not grease the top of the wax paper)
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2Sift flour & baking powder together and set aside. Measure and mix milk with flavoring(s)
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3Cream Butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add Flour mixture and milk mixture alternating. Mix batter well.
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4Pour batter into the tube pan and bake for 1 1/2 hours or until golden brown and toothpick inserted comes out dry.
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5Allow to cool for about 15 minutes then run a butter knife or long thin spatula between the cake pan and the cake. Remove cake from tube pan by inverting the entire pan with cake onto a big round plate. Remove the tube and wax paper from the bottom of the cake. Carefully place a cake plate onto the bottom of the cake and reverse the cake back up to rest on the cake plate.
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