Grandmother'S Old Fashioned Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. sugar
1 lb. flour, sifted 3 times
vanilla flavoring
1 lb. butter or oleo
1 doz. eggs

Preparation

Cream butter, then sift sugar.
Add to butter a little at time, until all is used.
Then add egg yolks, beaten until light. Add flour gradually and last add beaten egg whites.
Fold whites in lightly.
Pour into a greased loaf pan or tube cake pan and bake 45 minutes in a moderate oven.
Do not open oven door until cake has been in oven 40 minutes.
A pan of water in bottom of stove helps.