Vanilla-Nutmeg Pound Cake

Directions

1. Butter and flour a 12-cup tube pan. Preheat oven to 350℉ (180℃).

Sift flour, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg together.

1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg is added.

Stir in vanilla.

1. Stir half of the sifted flour mixture into the butter-sugar mixture. Add 1 cup of the buttermilk. Add the other half of the flour mixture, then the remaining buttermilk.

2. Pour batter into prepared tube pan and bake until a wooden skewer inserted 2 inches from edge comes out clean (about 1 hour and 5 minutes).

Cool cake in pan 10 to 15 minutes; invert onto a cooling rack, remove pan, and cool completely before serving.

Transfer to a serving plate.

Dust with confectioners’ sugar.