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A friend of mine gave me this recipe years ago and everytime I bake this pound cake, I receive rave reviews, hope you will too.

Buttermilk Pound Cake III

Ingredients

  • 3 Cups of sugar
    2 Sticks of butter (soften)
    5 Large eggs (seperated)
    3 Cups sifted cake flour
    1 Cup buttermilk
    1/8 teaspoon baking powder (mixed in buttermilk)
    1 Teaspoon orange extract
    1 Teaspoon lemon extract
    1 Teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

    Beat egg whites with 3/4 cups of sugar and set aside.

  1. Cream remaining sugar with butter until lite and fluffy.
  2. Beat in egg yokes 1 at a time.
  3. Begin adding buttermilk and flour slowly (alternating).
  4. Add extracts and beat just a little bit more
  5. Fold in egg whites (do not beat egg whites into mix and do not mix the air out of the batter — keep everything lite and fluffy.)
  7. Place in cold oven. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes, depending on your oven.