Recipe: Old-fashioned Sour Cream Pound Cake
A lady gave my Mother this recipe in 1953 and it has been a family favorite ever since. You can serve it with caramel dunking sauce, with some fresh berries, or just plain by itself. Some things just can’t be improved, and this is one of them.
Old-fashioned Sour Cream Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 6 eggs, separated
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, sift before measuring
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Cream together sugar and butter, add the egg yolks one at time; beat well after each addition. Blend in vanilla, lemon juice and sour cream.
- Into a separate bowl, sift sifted flour, salt, and soda. Add sifted dry ingredients to batter; beat well. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
- Fold egg whites into the cake batter. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake at 300° for about 1-1/2 hours or until cake tests done.
Recipe adapted from: TwirlandTaste.com
I am looking for the instructions to make this cake. When I click on INSTRUCTIONS, it doesn’t take me to that site. I have the recipe but not sure how to put the ingredients together.
That’s odd…the link worked just fine for me. But here are the instructions:
Cream together sugar and butter, add the egg yolks one at time; beat well after each addition. Blend in vanilla, lemon juice and sour cream. Into a separate bowl, sift sifted flour, salt, and soda. Add sifted dry ingredients to batter; beat well. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold egg whites into the cake batter. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake at 300° for about 1-1/2 hours or until cake tests done.
This is IT. The ‘Cold Cake’ I asked my Mother for, every Birthday….Very happy today!
Is there a way to print just the recipe with out a the pictures around it?
If you click the bottom share box on the left edge of the screen (the blue one with the white crown), you will get a sharing dialogue.
Scroll down to “PrintFriendly.com”, and click that one.
You will get a print preview of the page, then click on the things that you do not want to print (like the pictures), and you should be set.
Made this for my sister at Christmas. It was so good everyone love this cake.Thanks for sharing.
The temperature is 300 F or degree ?
It is 300F.
Can I use baking powder instead?…not sure if the baking soda I have in the fridge will work
You can do that. You will want to use between 1/2 and 3/4 teaspoon of baking powder.
The only change you will notice in the cake is the airiness. You can expect it to come out a bit more dense, but for that little…it should be almost un-noticeable.
Thanks will let you know how it comes out.
Came out absolutely perfect and delicious