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1-2-3-4 Pound Cake

“We often baked this 1-2-3-4 cake. For a variation sometimes we would fill the last cup of flour with cocoa,” remembers an 80-year-old woman who raised—and cooked for—a large family.
Couverts1 large loaf cake
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3 cups cake flour or use 2½ cups cake flour and ½ cup cocoa
  • 4 eggs
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 3 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Instructions

  • Cream butter, then add sugar gradually and beat until fluffy.
  • Add eggs, one by one, beating well after each addition.
  • Sift dry ingredients together.
  • Mix sour cream and vanilla.
  • Add dry ingredients and sour cream mixture alternately to butter-sugar-egg batter, beating well continuously.
  • Bake in a large, greased bread pan at 350° for 1 hour.
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Course; Cake
Cuisine; Amish