Recipe: Cold Oven Pound Cake

This is an excellent pound cake!
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Cold Oven Pound Cake

3/4 cup butter, softened
2 3/4 cups granulated sugar
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp lemon extract
3 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp mace
1/2 tsp baking powder*
5 large eggs

Cream together butter and sugar. In a separate bowl, combine milk, vanilla and lemon extract. Add half of this mixture to the butter mixture. In another bowl, sift together flour, salt, mace and baking powder. Add one egg at a time, alternately with the flour mixture to the creamed mixture. Mix well after each addition. Add last half of milk mixture.

Start in COLD OVEN and bake at 350 degrees F. for about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Use a greased and floured bundt pan.

*For a lighter cake, add the 1/2 tsp baking powder to the last flour addition instead of sifting it in with the dry ingredients.