Pound cake refers to a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. The traditional recipe makes a cake much larger than most families can consume, and so the quantity is often changed to suit the size of the cake that is desired. As long as the ratio is preserved, the resulting cake will be identical to that using the traditional recipe. Hence, any cake made with a 1:1:1:1 ratio of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar is also called a pound cake, even if the quantity used is smaller or larger than an actual pound.
Recipe from the Kitchen of Kaye Gibson
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter
- 3 cups sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup o sour cream (8oz)
- 3 cups of Flour
Directions: Cream and sugar. Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition. Mix baking soda, sour cream and vanilla in bowl. Alternate with flour into butter mixture. Mix well. Pour into well greased and floured tube pan. Bake for 80 minutes or until toothpick comes clean.
Cool in pan for 15 minutes before removing to rack. Sprink with powdered sugar.
