An Old-Fashioned Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. butter
1 1/4 lb. flour
1 lb. sugar
1 lb. raisins
9 eggs
2 oz. candied peel
1/2 oz. chopped almonds

Preparation

Work the butter to a cream; add the flour, the sugar, the raisins, the candied peel and the chopped almonds.
Mix them well together.
Whisk the eggs and add them to the dry ingredients. Beat the whole for about 10 minutes.
Pour the batter into a greased, paper-lined cake pan and bake in a preheated oven for 1 hour or until cake is done at 350\u00b0.
Makes 2 nice sized cakes.