Never fail pound cake
12 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Sticks butter or margarine | |
| 6 | Eggs | |
| 3 | cups | Flour |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| 1 | teaspoon | Lemon juice |
| ½ | cup | Crisco shortening |
| 3 | cups | Sugar |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | cup | Milk |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
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, .