Grammy's Recipe Book Desserts
All Butter Pound Cake
- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- 50 min
- Rest
- 30 mincool
- Total
- 1 hr 40 minstart to eating
Times are our estimates for Grammy's recipe, with unhurried prep.
As written
Word for word from her page, with her spelling and line breaks. [?] marks a word we couldn't read.
All Butter Pound Cake
325° oven - tube pan
1/2 lb butter 1 LB.
1 1/2 cups sugar 3 cups
1 1/3 cup flour 2 2/3
4 eggs 8
1 tsp vanilla 2 tsp
1. Cream butter + sugar
2. Add eggs 1 at a time - beat well
3. Add flour + vanilla - beat together
Bake 50 min. in greased +
floured tube pan.
Cupcakes 20 min @ 350°
325° oven - tube pan
1/2 lb butter 1 LB.
1 1/2 cups sugar 3 cups
1 1/3 cup flour 2 2/3
4 eggs 8
1 tsp vanilla 2 tsp
1. Cream butter + sugar
2. Add eggs 1 at a time - beat well
3. Add flour + vanilla - beat together
Bake 50 min. in greased +
floured tube pan.
Cupcakes 20 min @ 350°
Grammy's recipe
Her recipe, typed out to cook from: her amounts and her words, with abbreviations spelled out and the steps numbered.
Ingredients
- ½ pound (2 sticks) butter
- 1½ cups sugar
- 1⅓ cups flour
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Method
- Heat the oven to 325° and grease and flour a tube pan.
- Cream the butter and sugar.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well.
- Add the flour and vanilla and beat together.
- Bake 50 minutes.
Modernized
A present-day cookbook version, with missing steps filled in. These are suggestions, not her words.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks, 226 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1½ cups (300 g) sugar
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1⅓ cups (170 g) all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Method
- Heat the oven to 325°F. Grease and flour a tube pan or a 9×5-inch loaf pan.
- Beat the butter until creamy, then add the sugar and beat 5 minutes, until pale and fluffy. This is what makes it rise.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
- Mix the flour and salt, and add it on low speed with the vanilla until just combined.
- Spread in the pan and bake 50–65 minutes, until golden and a skewer comes out clean.
- Cool 15 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a rack.
Ideas to play with
Twists and variations to try. Suggestions, not hers.
Lemon
Add the zest of 2 lemons to the sugar, and brush the warm cake with lemon syrup.
Strawberry shortcake
Serve toasted slices with macerated strawberries and whipped cream.
Marble
Stir 3 tablespoons cocoa into a third of the batter and swirl it through.
Grilled
Butter thick slices and toast them in a pan. Top with ice cream.