Cherry Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sticks margarine
1/2 c. shortening
3 c. sugar
6 large eggs
3/4 c. milk and cherry juice (to make 1 c.)
3 3/4 c. plain flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1 (10 oz.) maraschino cherries

Preparation

Cream margarine, shortening and sugar until light.
Add eggs, one at a time.
Mix together milk and cherry juice.
Measure sifted flour and add to first mixture alternately with cherry-milk mixture.
Add 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Stir in half of the cherries. Reserve the rest of cherries for icing.
Bake at 300\u00b0 for 1 1/2 hours.