Mom's Sour Cream Pound Cake

My favorite "food" on the planet is popcorn.

My next favorite "food" is my mom's Sour Cream Pound Cake.

It is sinful, heavenly, buttery, denseness and if I have to repent after eating 

a slice (or 5), I allay some of my guilt by sharing it with you.

When mom comes to town, we have to make it, but she usually she tweaks it (it's her recipe)
and I think she is done doing that.

MOM'S SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE 

• 1 cup (2 sticks) of salted butter, softened)
• 2 cups sugar
• 6 eggs (room temperature)
• 3 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. baking soda
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 tbsp. vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. lemon extract (or zest of one lemon)
• 2 tsp. almond extract
• Blueberry (or strawberry) sauce and whipped cream

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each.

In separate bowl, stir together dry ingredients.

Add dry ingredients alternately with sour cream to first mixture till smooth.

Add extracts.
With a pastry brush, butter inside of tube pan, then flour the inside of the pan.
Bake at 350 for 1 hour. Cool 5 minutes in pan, invert onto plate.

Wait 15 minutes. Eat half of it while it's warm. Sharing is optional.

These are the main ingredients I use.

Zulka is found at Wal-Mart in the Hispanic section, It is raw sugar that hasn't been bleached.
It's around $3 for a 4 pound bag.
I love the flavor of raw sugar, it is richer and I try not to eat bleach too often,
it's probably not good for us.

I also use unbleached flour. for the same reason I eat unbleached sugar.

REAL butter.
No soy butter, margarine, olive oil spread, etc...
Just two ingredients: cream and salt.

Make some coffee as if mom were with you and then eat some cake.

Mom, I remember you making this cake once when I was a young teen.
You told me, after I'd had one slice, that I wasn't to have another.

I snuck one anyway.
I took it to my room and hid it.

I found it some 6 years later in a box in my closet, when I was moving out of your home.
It was as hard as a rock, but you know what?
I still considered eating it!
(Don't worry, I didn't).
(I love crunchy things, what can I say)?

Now when I make it, I still eat the crusty end of this cake first.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.  ~Spanish Proverb