Recipe: Old Fashioned Pound Cake (1940's)

OLD FASHIONED POUND CAKE

"Have you ever tasted real pound cake? Here's an old-fashioned recipe for good old-fashioned tasting pound cake. It's the kind that our grandmothers used to put on the table amid squeals of delight from the whole family. It is surprisingly simple to make, too."

1/2 pound butter, creamed
1 3/4 cups sugar
5 whole eggs
2 cups flour, measured after sifting twice
nutmeg or mace to taste

Beat like the devil, 1/2 pound butter, (more if you have it). Add 1 3/4 cups sugar with the creamed butter. Cream until fluffy and light. Then
drop in 1 whole egg at a time and stir slowly until you have dropped in a total of 5 eggs. Then fold in 2 cups of flour that has been measured after it has been sifted twice. Do not beat as that makes it tough.

Flavor with a little nutmeg or mace.

Cook in a loaf pan about 45 minutes at 300 degrees F. Turn oven up to 325F. for browning. Leave it at 325F. for 15 minutes or until a nice golden brown."

Source: Salt Lake City Deseret News newspaper,
Tue, Mar 23, 1948.

Column: Adventures in Good Eating....at Home by
Duncan Hines (food critic for which Duncan Hines Co. is named).