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Pound Cake

Wash well one pound of butter, dry in a towel, place in a slightly warmed bowl and work and beat with a spoon until thoroughly creamed. Add gradually one pound of sugar and cream again. Separate ten eggs, beating the yolks until thick and the whites until stiff and dry. Add the yolks to the butter and sugar, then gradually one pound of pastry flour well dried and sifted. Beat hard and long, add the beaten whites, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of nutmeg or mace and the juice of half of a lemon. Beat well again, turn into loaf tins lined with buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven.