Black Walnut Pound Cake
(125 year old recipe) it is actually older than that, but that is what they call it. I actually believe it is around 175 years old now.
~~Ingredients ~~
1/2 cup leaf lard
1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter
3 cups sugar
5 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon black walnut flavoring
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped black walnuts
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup evaporated milk
~~Instructions ~~
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
In a bowl of a stand mixer, cream the lard and butter until the color is light and creamy (about 3 minutes.) Add the sugar and beat until light fluffy, (another 3 minutes.) Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla and black walnut flavoring and beat well.
In a bowl, mix 1/4 cup of the flour with the nuts and coat the nuts well and set aside. Sift the remaining flour with the baking powder and begin adding alternately with milk to the butter/lard mixture, starting and ending with the flour.
Fold in the floured nuts. Do not beat. Bake in a greased and floured tube cake pan for one hour and 20 minutes or until done.
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