This is the recipe my Grandmother would make every year during the holidays. I found the recipe tucked in her Bible when she passed, and it was written in her Grandmother's handwriting. It's been in my family for at least 7 generations, and in 2012, I won a Blue Ribbon at the Kentucky State fair by following her exact instructions.
Tastes like pure love!
Ingredients
- all-purpose flour: 3 cups
- baking powder: 1 tsp
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- white sugar: 3 cups
- ½ cups butter: 1 piece (softened)
- eggs: 5 piece
- milk: 1 cup
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a tube pan with some butter and dust lightly with flour.
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Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
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Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk. Mix in vanilla extract. Pour batter into the prepared tube pan.
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Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack and let cool completely, about 30 minutes.
