Blue Ribbon Pound Cake Recipe - Cooking Index
4 cups | 250g / 8.8oz | Sifted all-purpose flour |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Baking powder |
1/2 teaspoon | 2.5ml | Salt |
1 | Ground nutmeg | |
2 cups | 396g / 13oz | Unsalted butter - at room temperature |
3 cups | 594g / 20oz | Sugar |
6 cups | 1188g / 41oz | Eggs - at room temperature (large) |
1 cup | 237ml | Milk - at room temperature |
2 teaspoons | 10ml | Lemon extract or vanilla |
(or 1 tspn each lemon extract and vanilla) | ||
Garnish | ||
Confectioners' sugar | ||
Fresh whole strawberries |
Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg and set aside.
Cream butter until very light and fluffy, then add sugar gradually, creaming all the while. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition just enough to mix.
Combine the milk and the flavoring (lemon, vanilla or lemon and vanilla). Add the sifted dry ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
Pour into a well-buttered-and-floured 10-inch tube pan, filling to within about 2 inches of the top. Bake in a 300 degree oven for about 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until cake just begins to pull from the sides of the pan and a finger pressed gently on the top of the cake leaves a print that vanishes slowly.
Cool cake upright in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn out on the rack and cool to room temperature before cutting. Serve as is or garnish, if you like with a dusting of
This recipe yields ?? servings.
Source:
COOKING LIVE with Sara Moulton - (Show # CL-9185) - from the TV FOOD - NETWORK
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