A Real Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. (2 c.) sugar
1 lb. (4 c.) flour
1/2 lb. (1 c.) butter
6 eggs (the whites and yolks beaten separately)
3/4 c. milk
1 tsp. soda
2 tsp. cream of tartar

Preparation

Sift the soda and the cream of tartar into the flour. Rub the butter and sugar to a cream.
Add one-quarter of the whites and yolks, next the flour and then the milk.
Beat in the remaining yolks and mix in the remaining whites in that order.
Have a not too easy oven ready (325\u00b0) and bake 1 1/4 hours.
Test for doneness.