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LEMON POUND CAKE June 23, 2008

LEMON POUND CAKE

Lemon pound cake recipe by TonyaSue & Thomasine Carther

  

Ingredients:

2 14 Cups (4 sticks) of unsalted butter 2 14 cups of sugar

9 eggs (at room temperature)

1 teaspoon of lemon extract

1 -14 teaspoons of grated lemon rind

3 cups of all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon of baking powder

14 teaspoon of salt

1 quart of strawberries hulled and sliced

 

DIRECTIONS:

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Tap out excess flour. Beat butter in a larger bowl until creamy. Beat in sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Beat lemon extract and rind. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Gradually beat into butter mix­ture and beat on medium speed for 3 min­utes or until thick and creamy. Pour into pre­pared pan. Bake in heated oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Lower oven temper­ature to 300 degrees and bake 50 minutes more. Let cool in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes. Turn cake out onto rock to cool. Serve with strawberries.

 

 

 

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