Old Fashioned Butter Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. butter
2 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
4 eggs
3 c. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 c. buttermilk
sifted powdered sugar

Preparation

Beat together butter and sugar until fluffy.
Beat in vanilla; add eggs, one at a time, blending well after each addition. Combine flour with baking soda and salt; add to batter alternately with buttermilk; beginning and ending with flour.
Butter and flour an 8-cup fluted mold.
Pour in batter.
Bake at 350\u00b0 for about 1 1/2 hours or until a tester inserted in center comes out clean. Allow cake to stand 5 minutes inverted; remove cake from pan and finish cooling on a cake rack.
Dust with powdered sugar before serving.