Old Fashioned Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. sugar
3 c. cake flour
3 sticks butter or margarine
6 eggs
dash of salt
1 tsp. flavoring
1 can Carnation evaporated milk

Preparation

Allow butter or margarine to soften at room temperature. Combine sugar, butter and eggs in a large mixing bowl.
Beat until mixture is smooth and creamy.
Alternate, adding small amounts of the cake flour and the milk and beat after each addition.
Add a dash of salt and the flavoring.
Continue beating the mixture until it is smooth and creamy.
The mixture will look like softened ice cream.
(Do not overmix.)
Cook in a tube pan at 350\u00b0 for 1 1/2 hours.
Allow to cool for 15 minutes before removing from the pan.