Crusty Pound Cake
By
Marcia McCance
@mmccance
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It has a slightly unusual baking method to create the crusty top -- oh and, ahem, 1 and 1/2 pounds of butter!!
Since I refuse to pass on a recipe with "margarine" in it, I have adjusted the butter and milk to be more healthy.
The picture is a "guess" but the recipe is authentic.
Ingredients
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3 csugar
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3 csifted flour (sift three times after measuring)
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6 stickbutter, room temperature
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1 1/4 cmilk (add flavoring to milk)
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5large whole eggs
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2 tspflavoring (vanilla, lemon, or one of each) (could also use almond and/or vanilla)
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5drops yellow food coloring added to the whipped ingredients before the flour and milk
How to Make Crusty Pound Cake
- DO NOT PREHEAT OVEN.
All ingredients room temperature (75F or above)
WELL GREASE and Flour: one tube pan, or two loaf pans - Cream the sugar and butter. Reduce speed and add one egg, whip for 1/2 minute then add the other eggs, one at a time, whipping for 1/2 minute between each one.
- Reduce speed to slowest and add 1/4 of the flour, blend for 2 minutes using spatula to scrape the bowl. Now add 1/3 of milk, the food coloring and whip 1 minute then repeat alternating flour and milk. Starting and ending with flour.
- Do not preheat the oven. Place the cake on the middle rack and turn oven to 325 F. Bake for 1 1/4 hour -- then set oven to 350 F and bake for 15 minutes more. Cake should be very brown but not burnt.
- Remove the cake from the pan immediately when taken out of oven and place it on a cooling rack to cool.