Two large cups sugar, 1 1/2 cups butter (scant), 8 eggs, 2 cups unsifted flour, 1 even teaspoon baking powder, and flavor with lemon. If baked in 1 pan, bake 1 hour. Better if baked in a funnel pan.

White Pound Cake

Whites of 12 eggs, 1 pound sugar, 3/4 pound butter, 1 pound sifted flour, 1 pound shredded cocoa-nut, 1 pound blanched and chopped almonds, 1/2 pound chopped citron, 1/2 glass milk or water, 1 teaspoon baking powder.

Pound Cake

10 eggs, 3 good cups flour, 3 scant cups sugar, 1 1/2 cups butter. Add 4 tablespoons of hot water to the sugar and butter before creaming. Cream well, then beat in eggs, 1 at a time. Add sifted flour with 1 small teaspoon baking powder. Beat all together thoroughly. Flavor.