Old-Fashioned Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. butter (room temperature)
1 lb. (10) eggs (room temperature)
1/4 tsp. mace
3 1/3 c. sugar
4 c. sifted cake flour
1 tsp. vanilla
pinch of salt

Preparation

Cream butter; add sugar gradually and cream after each addition, using low speed on mixer.
Add eggs, one at a time; beat after each addition.
Add salt and mace to measured flour and sift approximately 6 times.
Add flour gradually to egg mixture and beat after each addition.
Add vanilla.
Pour in large-sized tube cake pan, lightly floured.
Bake in preheated oven at 325\u00b0 for 1 1/2 hours.