A tried-and-true family favorite from Becky's own recipe collection. Here's everything you need to make Grandmother's Pound Cake at home.
This recipe is where my whole handwritten notebook began. My Grandmother gave me my very first recipe — this pound cake — and I’ve kept every recipe by hand ever since. I still have her old recipe notebook, too: recipes written on whatever she could find — scrap paper, the backs of old grocery store receipts, newspaper and magazine clippings. It is fun looking back through them and seeing her handwriting. When you make this cake, you’re baking a little piece of our family history.
Grandmother's Pound Cake
Makes 12 servings · ~385 calories per serving (estimated)
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
- 6 eggs
- Optional: 1/4 tsp vanilla extract (or orange)
Instructions
- Cream butter, add sugar, and cream again.
- Alternate adding flour and eggs.
- Bake in a tube pan for one hour at 325°F.
- Note: Grandmother used homemade cow butter and homemade eggs, which makes a difference in taste and color.
From Becky’s handwritten notebook
Every recipe on this site started the same way — written by hand in Becky’s spiral kitchen notebook, usually with a dinner bubbling on the stove nearby. Here’s the original page this recipe was typed up from, smudges and all:
See the original handwritten page (1)
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