Grandmother's Pound Cake

This Christmas my mom decided there should be a theme to the holiday. Though this idea is extremely corny, that's just the type of stuff we do around my house. So the theme became "old traditions, new traditions" because for the first year ever we had Christmas dinner in our house instead of my grandma's. Because of this, my mom decided she wanted to make two of my great grandmothers' recipes, pound cake from one side of the family and homemade banana pudding from the other side. This pound cake was the easiest one I've ever made and it tasted better than all of the complicated ones. My mom said it didn't rise as much as it used to when her grandmother made it but hopefully next time I make it I can figure out what to do differently that might change that. I hate how in most pound cake recipes you end up having to sift cups and cups of flour, so this was the perfect recipe for me. As you can see in the picture below we still have the recipe card in her original handwriting, funny how simple recipes were back then!

Grandmother's Pound Cake

Ingredients

2 cups sugar

2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter

4 eggs

2 cups all purpose flour

pinch of salt

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 tsp lemon extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.

Combine sugar and butter, cream well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add in the flour and a pinch of salt. Once combined beat in vanilla and lemon extracts. Pour into greased bundt pan for approximately one hour, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.