Never fail pound cake

12 Servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
2Sticks butter or margarine
6Eggs
3cupsFlour
¼teaspoonBaking powder
1teaspoonLemon juice
½cupCrisco shortening
3cupsSugar
¼teaspoonSalt
1cupMilk
1teaspoonVanilla

Directions

Grease one large tube pan. Cream together butter & shortening, add eggs one at a time, beating well. Add sugar a little at a time until all is added.

Sift flour, salt & baking powder & alternate adding mixture & milk to the creamed mixture until all is added. Add vanilla & lemon juice & beat well.

Turn oven on to 350& put cake in immediately--no preheating necessary.

Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes. Remember, ovens vary--check after 1 hour.

MRS IRVIN (BETTY) BUTLER, JR.

From the <The Bliss of Cooking Returns>, Fort Bliss Officers Wives Club, Ft. Bliss, TX. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .