Grandma's Original Pound Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs, separated
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 lemon, rind of
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup milk

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350 degs. grease a tube pan or bundt pan.
• 2 in mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. add egg yolks and lemon rind.
• 3 sift together flour and baking powder and add to creamed mixture alternating with milk.
• 4 in separate bowl, beat egg whites and salt until stiff. mix some of whites into batter, and then fold batter into remaining whites.
• 5 pour into pan and bake for 30-45 mins, until it tests as done.