Old Fashioned Pound Cake

Ingredients of Old Fashioned Pound Cake

2 cups Plain flour

2 cups Sugar

2 sticks Butter plus 1 tbsp

1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

1 teaspoon Lemon extract

pinch Salt

6 Eggs

Method of Old Fashioned Pound Cake

Sift flour. Mix sugar and butter. Beat until creamy. Add 2 or 3 spoons flour nd 1 egg. Beat thouroughly and continue adding 2 or 3 spoons flour and 1 egg beaten thoughroughly until all have been added.. Then add vanilla and lemon. Bake 325? for 1 1/4 hours.

Optional - Ice with Chocolate Icing.

Chocolate Icing

1 box confectioners sugar sifted. Add 1 1/2 sticks softened butter and a pince of salt. Then add 3/4 cups cocoa, 2 tsp vanilla extract and 1/2 cup milk. Mix gradually to consistency. Add one cup of nuts. Spread evenly over cake.