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Pam Richardson

Mother's Pound Cake

Ingredients
  

  • 3 sticks unsalted butter softened (Mother used Land O Lakes’)
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 8- ounce package cream cheese softened
  • 6 egg yolks
  • 3 cups flour Mother only used White Lily
  • 1/4 teaspoon soda
  • 1 teaspoon good vanilla extract Nielsen-Massey
  • 6 egg whites beaten until stiff peaks

Method
 

  1. Cream butter, sugar and cream cheese preferably in a stand-mixer. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating after each addition. Add flour, soda, and vanilla and mix well. Fold in beaten egg whites. Pour into well-greased bundt pan. Bake in a pre-heated 300 degree oven for 1 1/2 hours or until done. Cool on wire rack. Slice and serve with fresh strawberries (or peaches)and whipped cream.