Early American Corn Meal Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup Granulated sugar|Sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups sifted pastry flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 cup sifted white cornmeal
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg (or 1/4 teaspoon prepared ground nutmeg)
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoons brandy, preferably apple brandy
- Thoroughly cream butter and Granulated sugar|Sugar until fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time .
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, and corn meal.
- Blend by hand the dry ingredients into the batter alternately with the brandy and vanilla.
- Pour into a greased shallow cake pan.
- Bake at 325 degrees F for 1 1/2 hours.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes.
- Invert on a cake rack and strip of the wax paper.
This article uses material from the "Early American Corn Meal Pound Cake" article on the Recipes wiki at Wikia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License
