Buttermilk Pound Cake II Recipe was simple to make and so yummy.If you want a denser cake omit one of the egg whites from the 6 eggs.It left out the lemon extract and added more vanilla. photo from 1001recipe.com

Ingredients:

1 cup butter

1 cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon lemon extract

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

3 cups white sugar

3 cups all-purpose flour

6 eggs

add any ingredients (optional)

Method:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).

Grease one 9 or 10 inch tube pan. Mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

In a large bowl, beat butter with sugar. Mix in the eggs, one at time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the lemon and the vanilla extracts.

Gently mix in flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Pour batter into the prepared pan.

Bake in preheated oven for 90 minutes. Do not open oven door until after one hour.

When cake begins to pull away from the side of the pan it is done.

Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.