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Charles Alford’s Favorite Pound Cake
Recipe is from Mary Chenoweth Wright, Mary Alford’s grandmother, whom she is named after. Read the story here.
Ingredients:
1 cup butter or shortening
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
3 cups flour
1 cup buttermilk
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Recipe directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and mix. Mix baking soda into buttermilk and stir. Alternately, add flour and buttermilk mixture to creamed mixture. Stir in vanilla.
Bake in either a greased and floured large loaf pan or bundt pan for 45 minutes or until tester comes out clean.
We hope you enjoy this pound cake as much as Charles did!
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