INGREDIENTS
3 cups sugar (sifted)
3 sticks of butter
8 eggs
3 cups of flour (sifted twice)
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease and flour a loaf or bundt pan. Set aside.
Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add flour 1/2 cup at a time. beat well after each addition.
Pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Remove from oven and cool in pan slightly before inverting on plate to finish cooling.
YIELD: 12 to 16 servings
HINT:
NEVER substitute margarine (or “light” butter) for the butter in a pound cake. Do not test cake for doneness until it has been baking for at least one hour.
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