old fashion pound cake

How To Make old fashion pound cake

• 1

  Preheat oven to 300 F. Measure out 6 level tablespoons sugar Whip egg whites, adding sugar as you whip. Place in refrigerator until needed
• 2

  Cream butter well, gradually adding remaining sugar and egg yolks ( 2 at a time). Add flour and cream alternately to the creamed mixture. Whip until mixture is as light as possible. (Takes 10 minutes at low speed with an electric mixer).
• 3

  Still beating at low speed, whip in egg whites just long enough to mix well. Add vanilla at the same time. Pour into slightly greased tube pan, 10 x 4 inches deep, or two pans of similiar size. Bake for one hour and twenty five minutes.
• 4

  The cake should fall about one inch after taken from oven. This gives desired waxy testure
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