GrandmotherS Old Fashioned Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb sugar
• 1 lb flour sifted 3 times
• vanilla flavoring
• 1 lb butter or oleo
• 1 doz eggs

Directions

1. Cream butter then sift sugar
2. Add to butter a little at time until all is used
3. Then add egg yolks beaten until light Add flour gradually and last add beaten egg whites
4. Fold whites in lightly
5. Pour into a greased loaf pan or tube cake pan and bake 45 minutes in a moderate oven
6. Do not open oven door until cake has been in oven 40 minutes
7. A pan of water in bottom of stove helps