Mama’s house always smelled delicious, because Mama was an amazing person in the kitchen.\u00a0 I can remember standing next to her and watching\u00a0 her throw a few ingredients together, mix them up, knead until a dough formed, make and then bake the best biscuits you would ever put in your mouth.\u00a0 I haven’t had one of Mama’s biscuits in decades, but the smell and taste linger.\u00a0 Mom and I have tried countless times, but we simply cannot recreate them ourselves.\u00a0 Something is always off.<\/p>\n
Thankfully we have had repeated success with Mama’s pound cake.\u00a0 We eat this pound cake with whatever meal we wish.\u00a0 And yes, we have been known to eat pound cake for breakfast.\u00a0 We are Southern and thus can get away with it.<\/p>\n
Mama’s Pound Cake<\/strong><\/p>\n Cream together 2 sticks butter, \u00bd cup shortening and 3 cups sugar. Add 1-teaspoon vanilla and 1 teaspoon almond extract. Add 6 medium eggs, beating in one at a time. Sift together 3 times: 3 cups flour, \u00bd teaspoon salt and \u00bd teaspoon baking powder. Stir in 1-cup milk divided into thirds alternating with flour so you end with milk. Bake in a well-greased and floured large tube pan at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Let cake stand in pan for 10 minutes before inverting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mama’s house always smelled delicious, because Mama was an amazing person in the kitchen.\u00a0 I can remember standing next to her and watching\u00a0 her throw a few ingredients together, mix them up, knead until a dough formed, make and then bake the best biscuits you would ever put in your mouth.\u00a0 I haven’t had one … Continue reading It all started when…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pound-cakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baking.lifeontheridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baking.lifeontheridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baking.lifeontheridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baking.lifeontheridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baking.lifeontheridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baking.lifeontheridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/baking.lifeontheridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baking.lifeontheridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baking.lifeontheridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baking.lifeontheridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}