Buttermilk Pound Cake ...Circa 1950

Today's recipes from old titles, features buttermilk pound cake and other recipes. I fast tracked the ingredients for the cake after doing a Google search for a friend. Currently I have two pamphlets, Borden's Eagle Brand magic Recipes and Specialty Breads and Basic Sweet Doughs Tested Formulas, but the pound cake recipes are not on the list.

If there is anyone out there with these basic ingredients for a pound cake: a cup of buttermilk, a bunch of eggs, separated (whipped egg whites) folded into batter, baked inside 2 loaf pans, let me know. I'd like to send the recipe to Mary.

The rest of these heavenly recipes are for all you cake enthusiasts.

BUTTERMILK BROWNBREAD
1/2 CUP CORN MEAL
1/2 CUP FLOUR
1/2 CUP WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR
PINCH OF SALT
2 TABLESPOONS SUGAR
3/4 TEASPOON SODA
1 CUP BUTTERMILK
1/4 CUP MOLASSES
1/2 CUP RAISINS

Sift all the dry ingredients together. Mix the molasses and buttermilk together and blend into the flour mixture. Add the raisins, slightly floured and pour the whole into a greased mold with tight cover. Place on rack in large kettle, over boiling water. Cover the kettle and steam about 2 hours until done.
-A World of Good Eating

BUTTER SPONGE CAKE (Alma Agans)
Cream 2 c. sugar, 3/4 c. shortening. Add 4 beaten egg yolks. Sift 1/2 c. cornstarch, 2 tsp. baking powder with 2 c. flour and add alternately with 1 c. milk. Fold in 4 stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in a moderate oven for 45 minutes until done.
-378 Recipes From Hunterdon's Kitchens

HOT MILK SPONGECAKE (Mary Newkirk)
4 large eggs
1 cup self-raising flour, sifted 3 times
1 cup sugar, sifted
2 tbs. hot milk
2 tbs. cream of tartar
grated rind of a lemon

Beat egg whites stiff, then add cream of tartar and 4 tbs sugar slowly. Beat yolks with balance of sugar, grated lemon rind and lemon juice until creamy, then add milk and flour mixing lightly-lastly fold in egg whites and bake in tube pan for 1 hour at 350 degrees.
-Time For Food

POUND CAKE (Martha Gommel)
1 lb butter
1 lb gran. sugar
9 eggs separated
1 lb sifted flour
1 t. salt
1 t. baking powder
1 T. lemon juice
1/2 t. mace

Cream the butter well, gradually add the sugar. Beat in egg yolks until very light. Mix in dry ingredients and lemon juice. Fold in the egg whites which have been beaten stiff, but not dry. Bake in large pan lines with wax paper in moderate oven.
-New Jersey's Own COOKBOOK

POUND CAKE
2 cups Presto Cake flour
1/2 lb. Philadelphia cream cheese
1/2 lb. Imperial margarine
2 tsp. vanilla
6 large eggs
2 cups sugar

Cream margarine, add sugar, then soften cream cheese, add vanilla, flour and one egg at a time. Beat with your mixer. Bake 1 hr. and 10 min. at 350 degrees F. Test to see if longer baking is necessary. Cake should be brown on the outside.
-St. Joseph's Cookbook

BRANDY POUND CAKE
1 lb. cake flour
1 lbs. soft butter
1 lb. raisins
1 cup brandy
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 lb sugar
9 eggs

All ingredients should be room temperature. Sift flour, add raisins and salt. Cream butter, add sugar. Add to dry ingredients, mix 15 min. Add brandy and eggs and mix 10 min. Put in well-greased pans. Bake in 335degree F oven for 1 hours. Place pans in center of oven.
-St. Joseph's Cook Book

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http://trishgood1.tripod.com/cakeswan.html#Buttermilk_Pound_Cake

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http://www.basic-recipes.com/cks/buttermilk.htm

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