Great-Grandma Lillian’s Pound Cake

By carvalhohm2

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 ⁄2 cup shortening
• 3 cups sugar
• 6 large eggs
• 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 ⁄3 tsp table salt
• 1 cup milk

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350°F. Beat butter, shortening, and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer 2 minutes or until light and fluffy.

Add eggs, and beat 1 minute until creamy. Beat in vanilla just until blended.

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat 5 minutes.

Spoon batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.* Bake at 350°F for 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack, and cool completely (about 1 hour and 25 minutes).