Sarahw Aunt Thelma's Pound cake

2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 lb butter or Crisco butter flavored
6 eggs
1 1/2 tbs spoons of vanilla
1 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
cream butter and sugar together
add egg yokes one at a time beating in between add vanilla add the flour separately beat the whites and then fold into the batter
bake at 300 for an hour and a half in a greased and floured tubed bunt pan cool on a rack before turning out on cake plate

serve with fresh fruit in season.

things you can add to make festive
a quarter of an inch of vanilla bean to the egg yokes
it will look like little black specks in the cake but it will taste great.
to do this you will need a vanilla bean split down the middle and scrape a 1/4 of the inside of the bean into the batter.

enjoy