Mount Vernon Pound Cake

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Servings: 16 Difficulty: Advanced
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International-style sweet and satisfying dessert that brings home-style flavor to your table
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Mount Vernon Pound Cake

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Difficulty: Advanced
Servings: 16 Calories: 1669.8

Description

This International dessert features Butter, Flour, pastry, Egg; separated, Sugar. It delivers smooth, comforting richness, sweet, indulgent flavor. A wonderful way to end any meal, especially on special occasions. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lemon or orange zest
  2. Wash all the salt from a pound of butter, then put it dry between the folds of a clean cloth and
  3. set away in a cold
  4. place .
  5. Sift one pound of pastry flour and separate the yolks and whites of twelve eggs.
  6. Cream the butter and flour together very thoroughly and
  7. beat the yolks of the eggs to a thick, almost white, froth with one pound of granulated sugar.
  8. Add one teaspoonful of vanilla and a grating of mace.
  9. Gradually
  10. add the creamed butter and flour to the sugar and egg mixture and whip well, then
  11. fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs,
  12. pour into a well-greased and floured tube-pan, scatter a little grated lemon or orange rind over the top and
  13. bake in a moderate (350 F (177&# 194;°C).) oven about one and a quarter hours.
  14. Old recipe, Chase City, VA from The Williamsburg Art of Cookery

Nutrition Facts

Servings 16

Amount Per Serving
Calories 1669.8kcal
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 93.1g144%
Saturated Fat 58.1g291%
Cholesterol 244.0mg82%
Sodium 733.3mg31%
Total Carbohydrate 200.7g67%
Dietary Fiber 3.5g15%
Sugars 114.1g
Protein 12.5g25%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

Keywords: baking, butter, cake, dessert, egg, flour, granulated, international, mace, mount, pastry, pound, separated, sugar, title, vanilla, vegetarian, vernon
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