Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 lb. butter
1 lb. confectioners sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
6 eggs
1 confectioners sugar box all-purpose flour (level; do not shake down)
1/2 tsp. mace

Preparation

Have butter and eggs at room temperature.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy (in mixer).
Add vanilla and mace. Add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Add flour and mix only until blended.
Put into a buttered and floured 10-inch tube pan.
Bake in moderate oven at 325\u00b0 for about 1 1/2 hours.
Let stand in pan 5 minutes.
Turn out to cool.