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Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pound butter
• 1 pound sugar
• yolks 10 eggs
• whites 10 eggs
• 1 pound flour
• 1/2 teaspoon mace
• 2 tablespoons brandy

Instructions

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and continue beating; then add yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon colored, whites of eggs beaten until stiff and dry, flour, mace, and brandy. Beat vigorously five minutes. Bake in a deep pan one and one fourth hours in a slow oven; or if to be used for fancy ornamented cakes, bake thirty to thirty-five minutes in a dripping-pan.

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Source

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896).