Pound Cake

This is the "Old-Fashioned" Pound Cake recipe from James Villa's "My Mother's Southern Kitchen" (though I truncated the directions, which is wrong of me to do.)

1 pound butter (4 sticks)
1 pound sugar (2 cups)
9 large eggs
1 pound flour (4 cups, but weigh it if possible)
Dash of salt
2 tsp vanilla extract
Juice of 1 lemon

Cream the butter and gradually add the sugar. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well. Gradually add flour and salt, beating constantly, then the vanilla and lemon juice, beating till well blended.
Butter and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan; pour in batter; "spank" around the bottom of the pan.
Bake at 325 for 1 hr 15 min or until a straw comes out clean. Don't overcook.