Pound Cake
Molly Tyler's Pound Cake Recipe
Everyone loves pound cake, good with berries, custard, iced or not, and best of all, toasted for breakfast.

1 pound butter (no substitute)
1 pound sugar
1 pound eggs (9 eggs, separated)
1 teaspoon real vanilla
¼ teaspoon mace
4 cups cake flour
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
Cream butter, add sugar ½ cup at a time, add egg yolks, one at a time, incorporating each into batter before continuing, add vanilla; Sift cake flour 3 times, add mace, salt, cream of tartar. At the lowest speed or beating slowly, add flour and mix only until completely combined. Beat egg whites into peaks and fold into cake batter. ½ cups sugar. Line a tube pan with paper, brush with butter, dust with flour. Pour batter into pan. Bake at 325 pre heated oven for 1 to 1 ¼ hours. Check for doneness with straw inserted into the cake. Cool on a rack for 2 hours or completely cool. Store covered.