Name: Plain Pound Cake
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cream one pound of butter with one pound of sugar; 10 yolks of twelve eggs; 1 grated nutmeg; 1 glass of wine; 10 whites of the eggs; 1 nice light brown

Original Recipe

This is the old-fashioned recipe that our mothers used to make, and it can be kept for weeks in an earthen jar, closely covered, first dipping letter paper in brandy and placing over the top of the cake before covering the jar. Beat to a cream one pound of butter with one pound of sugar, after mixing well with the beaten yolks of twelve eggs, one grated nutmeg, one glass of wine, one glass of rose-water. Then stir in one pound of sifted flour and the well-beaten whites of the eggs. Bake a nice light brown.

1 cream one pound of butter with one pound of sugar
10 yolks of twelve eggs
1 grated nutmeg
1 glass of wine
10 whites of the eggs
1 nice light brown

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This is the old-fashioned recipe that our mothers used to make, and it can be kept for weeks in an earthen jar, closely covered, first dipping letter paper in brandy and placing over the top of the cake before covering the jar.
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Beat to a cream one pound of butter with one pound of sugar, after mixing well with the beaten yolks of twelve eggs, one grated nutmeg, one glass of wine, one glass of rose-water.
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Then stir in one pound of sifted flour and the well-beaten whites of the eggs.
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Bake a nice light brown.

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