Pound Cake

2 cupfuls sugar
2 cupfuls Crisco
2 teaspoonfuls salt
12 eggs
4 cupfuls flour
1/2 teaspoon powered mace
3 tablespoons brandy

Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, add yolks of eggs well beaten, fold in whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth, add brandy, flour, salt and mace, and mix lightly and quickly. Turn into a papered cake pan and bake in a slow oven for one hour and twenty minutes.

Sufficient for one large cake.