Inquiring Minds - You Asked For It

"I've never made pound cake! Care to share the recipe?"


 I've had some friends ask me to share my MomMom's pound cake recipe that I posted about on Facebook. I thought, instead of a quick post on FB I would honor my MomMom, start a blog and include her in my very first post. After all, I've been wanting to start this blog FOREVER!

My MomMom(shortly before she passed) and E. E was 4 years old.

I have renamed what she called "Poor Man's Pound Cake".  I'm sure she wouldn't mind me changing it to "Mom's MomMom's Pound Cake" only because my kids really like love, love, love this cake and I'd like to keep it as one of our family's special recipes.

I love seeing her handwriting every time I make this cake!

I'm not claiming that this is an original recipe but I will say that MomMom never used a recipe for her cake and never wrote it down until I asked her to do so when I was in my teens. I can still remember her saying that she couldn't write it straight out of her head so we would have to make it and follow along, Oh darn! When we would made her cake, it was like she was on auto pilot, she just threw it in and then baked. Super simple!

--After starting this post, I researched a little and I did find some recipes on the web with the poor man title. They are close but not the same as MomMom's. I'm sure there's one out there the same.
You can see them here and here if you'd like to compare. The second one also mentions about enjoying seeing the handwriting of their loved ones. How bout that?!--

MomMom's jars of which I inherited. 
I feel so very lucky!
Today's cake....Yummmm!!

Now here's her recipe....

Mom's MomMom's Pound Cake

3 cups flour

3 cups sugar

3 tsp baking powder

6 unbeaten eggs

1 cup milk

2 tsp vanilla flavoring

1/2 lb butter and 1/4 lb oleo (we just use 3/4 lb butter, 3 sticks) If not soft, cut in small pieces.

Mix all ingredients together in large bowl for 5 1/2 minutes at high speed.

Bake at 350* in a large, greased and floured tube pan for 1hr and 20 mins.

Super simple! ENJOY!

Do you have any family recipes that were never written down and just remembered? Care to share?

Q