Old South Pound Cake

This recipe comes again from a Gooseberry Patch cookbook of mine. The description in the cookbook is "If you thought the days were gone when pound cake really did take a pound of each ingredient...you were wrong!" I found this funny! :o)  I wanted to give it a shot for Mother's Day dessert... it is WONDERFUL! So buttery...it almost tastes like a sugar cookie to me. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 lb. butter
1 lb. sugar (a lb. of sugar or flour is about 3 2/3 cups)
1 lb. flour
10 eggs, separated
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla (or lemon flavoring...I used vanilla for mine)

                                                           mmmm butter  =o)

                                                                  eggs separated


Preheat oven to 300 deg. Grease a bundt pan and set aside. Cream butter; add sugar and beat well. In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks; add to creamed mixture.

Combine flour and salt; stir into creamed mixture. Add vanilla (or lemon flavoring). Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form; fold into cake batter.

 Pour into your prepared bundt pan. Bake for 1 1/2 hours (mine took a little longer). This cake is YUMMY! Please give it a try and let me know how it turns out!