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Pound Cake

2 cupfuls sugar 2 cupfuls Crisco 2 teaspoonfuls salt 12 eggs 4 cupfuls flour 1/2 teaspoonful powdered mace 3 tablespoonfuls brandy Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, add yolks of eggs well beaten, fold in whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth, add brandy, flour, salt and mace, and mix lightly and quickly. Turn into a papered cake pan and bake in a slow oven for one hour and twenty minutes.

Sufficient for one large cake.

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