Cold Oven Pound Cake

Directions

1. 1
   Cream butter, Crisco and sugar well.
2. 2
   Continue creaming and slowly add beaten eggs.
3. 3
   Sift flour.
4. 4
   Add salt and baking powder. Mix well.
5. 5
   Add dry ingredients alternately with milk to the creamed mixture, beginning and ending with flour.
6. 6
   Add extracts and blend well.
7. 7
   Pour into a well-greased and floured large tube pan.
8. 8
   Place in cold oven on the lower rack.
9. 9
   Turn oven on at 325°. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes.
10. 10
    Do not open oven door.