During the ‘90s, I realized life is not forever.

One day, there would be “no more,” and I decided to collect my handwritten notes of recipes and put them into book for my daughter. I’ve wished many times that I had recipes from Mama, but I seldom saw her with a cookbook — she always cooked from scratch.

For a year, I took one recipe at a time, those written on napkins, note cards, scratch pieces of paper or even on the back of envelopes and typed each one so they would be legible.

I cooked each recipe and combined them in a cookbook. My daughter and grandchildren, my sisters and their children and many friends have enjoyed cooking and reminiscing from this collection of old, easy, basic and simple southern recipes.

I’m certain I was a mother of a teenager before I ran across this recipe for a sour cream pound cake.

I worked at Sears for many years, and it was common to share recipes with one another. I really do not remember who provided this recipe, but I would truthfully say that is one of the easiest to bake, best tasting cakes I have ever made.

I use no frosting so I am not faced with that added sugar, although a glaze to drizzle on top is oh-so-good!

Serve it hot or cold; either way is good. I really like it warm from the oven with homemade ice cream. What a great dessert and a wonderful way to end a meal.

Sour Cream Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 2 sticks butter
• 3 cups sugar
• 6 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ teaspoon soda
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 8-ounce carton sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Cream butter and sugar together.

Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each egg is added. Stir salt and soda into flour. Add flour mixture to creamed ingredients alternately with sour cream. Mix well.

Stir in vanilla. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes.

Serve with homemade ice cream or fresh fruit of your choice. 

From the scriptures

Spiritual food is essential for all of us, as well as physical food. We should nourish our mind and feed our spirit daily just as we feed our body. To memorize a weekly Bible verse is a fabulous spiritual food. Try it, and you will see how easy it is to memorize scripture.

Our memory verse for this week is 1 Peter 5:8-9: “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion...”