Recipe For Cooking Christmas Pound Cake

Toaster Oven Cakes :: Holiday Cakes

Christmas Pound cake

1 lb. butter or margarine
1 lb. sugar
1 lb. flour (4 C. all-purpose or 4 1/2 C. cake flour)
2 C. white raisins
1 lb. pecans, coarsely chopped
1/2 to 1 C. candied cherries
1/2 to 1 C. candied pineapple
1 1/2 tea. baking powder
1/2 tea. salt
4 Tbsp. lemon extract or flavoring (2 oz. bottle)
6 eggs

Cream butter, sugar and lemon extract or flavoring. Sift flour once, then measure. Sift twice more, adding baking powder and salt to last sift. Add eggs, one at a time, to creamed mixture, alternating with flour, beating well after each addition. This Makes approximately a very stiff batter so will probably have to be beaten by hand. Then add nuts, raisins and candied fruits which have been coated with a little of the flour. Bake in a lrg. round tube pan which has been lined with brown paper and prepared. Bake at 300 degrees F for 2 hr., or until done when tested.