Traditional Pound Cake

Name: Traditional Pound Cake
Ingredients: ½ pound self-raising flour; ½ pound butter; ½ pound (4 ea.) eggs; ½ pound caster sugar; 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional); ½ pound assorted dried fruit (currants, sultanas, and raisins, with perhaps a lesser quantity of glacé cherries; optional)

A traditional pound cake recipe would specify one pound each of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar.

Ingredients

½ pound self-raising flour
½ pound butter
½ pound (4 ea.) eggs
½ pound caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
½ pound assorted dried fruit (currants, sultanas, and raisins, with perhaps a lesser quantity of glacé cherries; optional)

Steps

Preheat the oven to 175°C (350°F or Gas Mark 4).
Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy.
Beat in the eggs and add the vanilla extract.
Gradually sift in the dry ingredients.
Transfer to a greased and floured baking pan.
Bake for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted shows no moist crumbs when removed.

More recipes with flour, butter or eggs

Adapted from “Traditional Pound Cake” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.