Mama's Pound Cake

By JJCR

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb. (2 sticks) butter
• 1/2 cup Crisco shortening
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 3 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each. Sift together dry ingredients and add to mixture alternately with milk starting with flour and ending with flour. Add vanilla. Pour into greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 1/2 hours.




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