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Sour Cream Pound Cake

From the kitchen of Jane Lakeman (Mrs. Hayes)

Ingredients

  • 3 cups sifted flour
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1/4 tsp soda
  • 6 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 pt sour cream
  • 1/4 tsp almond extract

Instructions

  1. Cream butter and sugar.
  2. Add eggs one by one.
  3. Add soda to the flour and sift.
  4. Add flour and sour cream alternately.
  5. Bake in a greased tube pan for 1 1/2 hours.
Card lists 350° at the top but the instructions specify baking at 300°; both temperatures noted here as written. Filename reads "PoindCake" but the card is titled "Sour Cream Pound Cake."
digitized from SweetCreamPoindCake.pdf