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- From: kdeck@epaus.island.net (Karen Deck)
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: COLLECTION Pound Cake (2)
- Date: 6 Jan 1995 02:26:37 -0700
- Organization: Island Internet Inc. - (604) 753-2383
- Message-ID: <3ej2cd$mkt@mack.rt66.com>
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- Title: Old-Fashioned Pound Cake
- Categories: Cakes, Holiday, Both
- Yield: 1 servings
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- 1 c Butter
- 1 c Sugar
- 5 Egg
- -separated
- 2 ts Lemon rind
- 1 1/3 tb Lemon juice
- 1 ts Vanilla
- 2 1/4 c Flour
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- Prepare a 9x5" loaf tin by greasing it with butter and lining it with
- butter waxed paper. Preheat the oven to 325F. Using an electric mixer
- cream the butter until very smooth. Gradually add the sugar, beating
- well until very light and fluffy. With and electric mixer, beat the
- egg yolks until light-coloured and creamy and add to them the grated
- rind, lemon juice, vanilla.
- Beat this mixture well into the butter and sugar mixture. Very
- gradually stir in the flour. Beat the egg whites until they are
- stiff, but not dry. Fold them into the batter, a third at a time.
- Spoon into the prepared tin and bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or
- until light golden brown. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes then turn
- out onto a rack. Carefully remove the wax paper and cool completely.
- The cake keeps well wrapped in a brandy-soaked cheesecloth in a tin.
- It does not freeze well. Yields 1 loaf.
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- From the book "Canadian Christmas Cooking" by Rose Murray
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- Title: Chocolate Pound Cake with Butter Cream Frosting
- Categories: Dessert, Cake, Frosting, Sthrn/livng
- Yield: 1 cake
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- 1 c Butter; softened
- 1/2 c Margarine; softened
- 3 c Sugar
- 5 Eggs
- 3 c All-purpose flour
- 1/2 ts Baking powder
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 1/2 c Cocoa
- 1 c Milk
- 1 ts Vanilla extract
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- 3/4 c Margarine; softened
- 3 oz Cream cheese; softened
- pn Salt
- 16 oz Powdered sugar; plus
- 1/2 c Powdered sugar
- 1/4 c Milk; to 1/2 cup
- 1 ts Vanilla extract
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- Cream butter and margarine until smooth; add sugar and beat until
- light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each
- addition.
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- Combine dry ingredients, and add to creamed mixture alternately with
- milk and vanilla. spoon batter into a well-greased 10 inch tube pan
- or Bundt pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 35 minutes; reduce heat to 200
- degrees and bake an additional 35 to 40 minutes.
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- Cool; spread with Butter Cream Frosting, and decorate as desired.
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- Butter Cream Frosting: Cream margarine and cream cheese until light
- and fluffy. Add salt and sugar, a small amount at a time, beating
- until smooth. Slowly beat in just enough milk to make mixture
- spreadable; add vanilla.
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- SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, December, 1976. Typed for you by
- Nancy Coleman.
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