This recipe was sent by Pauline Larrick Hawkins to her daughter Dorothy, date unknown.
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Pound Cake
1 cup spry (I used margerine)
1 cup milk
2 cups sugar
3 cups flour
4 eggs
2 teaspoon baking P.
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon lemon extract
Cream sugar & shortening, add well beaten egg yolks, milk. Sift dry ingredients together and add to first mixture. Beat egg whites and add last.
Bake at 350oF for one hour in pound cake mold grease & flour.
Mrs. Lantz wrote extra I add is
1 teaspoon Baking P.
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 cup water
over
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I added Mrs. Lantz's extra ingredients plus 1 teaspoon vanilla.
This is an old recipe handed down in her family.
My first I baked 350o 1 hour like the recipe said but the next I left in longer until a toothpick came out clean.
Good luck.
Footnotes
Spry was a brand of vegetable shortening, similar to Crisco. Its manufacturer discontinued it in the 1960s. Substitute with any solid shortening (Crisco, margarine, butter, or lard). ↑
baking P. = baking powder. ↑
