Golden Pound Cake

By debrcovey

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup Crisco
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 2 3/4 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 tsp. (the recipe calls for lemon) I use almond

Preparation

Step 1

Cream Crisco and butter; add sugar; add eggs one at a time, beating well after each one.

Mix flour, baking powder and salt together; alternate milk and flour into the mixture, beginning and ending with the flour.

Add vanilla and lemon (or almond whichever you choose) mix well.

Bake at 325 for 1 hour and 15 minutes.