Pound Cake. Recipe No. 1.
Reading edition
Take: White sugar, 1 lb.; butter, ¾ lb.; eggs, 8; flour, 1 lb.; lemon or nutmeg.
Stir one pound of fine white sugar, and three quarters of a pound of butter to a light cream; add eight eggs, the whites and yolks beaten separately to a froth, and one pound of flour; flavor to taste with lemon or nutmeg. Cover with icing as soon as done.
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