Gugel Family Cookbook

Blue Ribbon Pound Cake

(from "Aunt Mary" Zentis)

4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
pinch of nutmeg
2 cups unsalted butter
3 cups sugar
6 large eggs
1/2 cup milk
2 tsp. lemon or vanilla extract (or 1 tsp. each)

Mix flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg. Cream butter until light and fluffy. Add sugar gradually. Add eggs, one at a time. Combine milk and flavoring. Add dry ingredients, alternating with milk. Pour into a buttered and floured 10 inch tube pan or 9 inch bundt pan or small loaf pans. Bake at 300°F for 1 hour 20 minutes for a tube pan, 1 hour 10 minutes for a bundt pan, or 45 minutes for small loaf pans.