Old-fashioned Sour Cream Pound Cake

Ingredients:

* 3 cups sugar

* 1 cup butter

* 6 eggs, separated

* 2 teaspoons vanilla

* 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

* 1 cup sour cream

* 3 cups all-purpose flour, sift before measuring

* 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

* 1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions:

Cream together sugar and butter, add the egg yolks one at time; beat well after each addition. Blend in vanilla, lemon juice and sour cream.

Into a separate bowl, sift sifted flour, salt, and soda. Add sifted dry ingredients to batter; beat well. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.

Fold egg whites into the cake batter. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake at 300° for about 1-1/2 hours or until cake tests done.