Country Pound Cake From Today In Mississippi Recipes

COUNTRY POUND CAKE FROM "TODAY IN MISSISSIPPI."

Steps:

• Mix vegetable oil,sugar, and eggs. Add pineapple, banana, and pecans.
• In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking soda, and salt.
• Add to sugar mixture. Add cinnamon, vanilla, ans cherries.
• Grate nutmeg over mixture.
• Pour into a tube pan and bake at 525 to 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours.

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Steps:

• Freheat the oven to 300 degrees; grease a 10-inch tube pan with butter, dust the bottom and sides with flour, and set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer and add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
• Alternately add the flour and milk, stirring till the batter is smooth.
• Add the two extracts and stir till well blended.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and bake till a cake tester or knife blade inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours. (Do not bake till the cake is dry.).
• Cool the cake in the pan on a rack for 5 minutes, then turn it out on the rack to cool completely.

COUNTRY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Do not preheat the oven. Grease 10 inch tube pan and line bottom with wax paper or parchment paper.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat the butter, shortening, and sugar on low speed for 10 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, blending well after each addition. Alternately add the flour mixture and milk, mixing well. Add the vanilla and lemon extracts.
• Pour batter into the prepared pan. Set the oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C. Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of cake comes out clean. Allow cake to cool in the pan for 1 hour. Remove to a cake rack and cool for at least 3 hours.

MISSISSIPPI CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F Grease and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan, tube pan or two 9-by-5-inch loaf pans.
• Combine butter, cream cheese, sugar, eggs and egg yolk, and vanilla in large bowl; beat until smooth.
• Add cake flour ½ cup at a time. Stir together until smooth.
• Pour into pan. Bake 70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Serves 16.