Recipe(tried): Southern Pound Cake (Time magazine cookbook, 1950's)

SOUTHERN POUND CAKE



2 cups cake flour
1 cup butter, room temperature
1 2/3 cups sugar
5 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Grease a 10-inch tube pan.

Sift flour, measure and sift 5 times; set aside.

Cream butter until light and fluffy. Gradually add sugar and cream with butter until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, after adding last egg, beat 5 minutes.

Add flour and mix well. Add vanilla. Place batter in prepared pan.

Bake at 300 degrees F for 1 1/4 hours.

Source: The TIME Reader's Book of Recipes Cookbook, 1951
Photo by Kathy-MA