Traditional Pound Cake
| Dessert | Cake
Ingredients
- ½ pound self-raising flour
- ½ pound butter
- ½ pound (4 ea.) eggs
- ½ pound caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
- ½ pound assorted dried fruit (currants, sultanas, and raisins, with perhaps a lesser quantity of glacé cherries; optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 175°C (350°F or Gas Mark 4).
- Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs and add the vanilla extract.
- Gradually sift in the dry ingredients.
- Transfer to a greased and floured baking pan.
- Bake for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted shows no moist crumbs when removed.