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.
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.