This recipe comes from the collection of my mother Pearl Stroud Mercer

½ pound butter
3 cups sugar
3 cups plain flour
6 eggs
½ tsp salt
1/4 tsp soda
½ pint sour cream

Sift togeether flour, salt and soda.  Cream butter and sugar.  Add 1 eggs, beat, add 1 cup flour 
and beat, repeat until all eggs and flour have been added.   Beat well.  Fold in sour cream.  
Pour into a tube pan greased with butter.  Place in a cold oven and turn to 325 degrees.  Do not 
open oven for 1 hour.  Cook 1 and ½ hours.  Let cake cool in pan for a few minutes.  







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