Lime Pound Cake 1968
- 1 12 cups butter, room temperature
- 1 12 cups granulated sugar
- 2 limes, zest of, grated
- 6 large eggs
- 3 cups cake flour
- 18 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 14 cup fresh lime juice
- Grease a ten inch tube pan.
- Line the bottom with greased paper also.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream room temperature butter in a large mixer bowl and add the sugar gradually.
- Continue beating until mixture is very soft and light.
- Add the grated rind from two limes, along with the eggs one at a time, beating in a teaspoon of the flour with each addition of each egg.
- Sift the remaining flour with the baking powder and salt onto waxed paper.
- Stir the flour into the cake with a wooden spoon and also add the vanilla, and lime juice.
- Pour mixture into prepared tube pan and smooth the top evenly.
- Bake in 350 preheated oven for 1 1/4 hours or until tester comes away clean.
- Don't overbake, start testing at the 60 minutes time.
- Remove when done and cool in the pan.
- Run a knife around edge and then turn out.
- Peel off the paper and set up right side onto a plate.
- Sprinkle with powdered icing sugar.
butter, sugar, eggs, cake flour, salt, baking powder, vanilla, lime juice
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/lime-pound-cake-1968-163701 (may not work)