Sherry'S Old Fashioned Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 lb. butter or margarine
1/3 c. Crisco
3 c. sugar
5 eggs (add 1 at a time)
3 c. flour (cake or all-purpose)
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Cream together the butter or margarine, Crisco, sugar and eggs (add eggs 1 at a time).
Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder.
Add flour mixture to creamed mixture, alternately with milk and vanilla, beginning and ending with flour.
Mix well with hand mixer.
Bake in greased and floured tube pan at 325\u00b0 for 1 1/2 hours.
Cool in pan.