Grandma'S Original Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
4 eggs, separated
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 lemon, rind of
2 1/2 cups flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup milk

Preparation

Heat oven to 350 degs. Grease a tube pan or bundt pan.
In mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and lemon rind.
Sift together flour and baking powder and add to creamed mixture alternating with milk.
In separate bowl, beat egg whites and salt until stiff. Mix some of whites into batter, and then fold batter into remaining whites.
Pour into pan and bake for 30-45 mins, until it tests as done.