Pound Cake

Name: Pound Cake
Ingredients: 3 c. sifted Swans Down cake flour; 5 eggs (room temperature); 2 sticks butter (room temperature); 1/2 c. Crisco (room temperature); 3 c. sugar; 1 c. milk; 1 pinch salt; 1 tsp. vanilla flavoring; 1 tsp. lemon flavoring

9 ingredients

6 steps

Ingredients

3 c. sifted Swans Down cake flour
5 eggs (room temperature)
2 sticks butter (room temperature)
1/2 c. Crisco (room temperature)
3 c. sugar
1 c. milk
1 pinch salt
1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
1 tsp. lemon flavoring

Directions

1

Cream butter and Crisco together.
2

Add sugar a little at a time and cream together well, then add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each one.
3

Then add flour alternately with milk, beating well each time.
4

Add salt and flavorings.
5

Put cake in tube pan in a cold oven.
6

Turn to 325° for 1 hour and 20 minutes, then cut cake and let it stay in for 20 more minutes, then take out.