Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. sugar
2 tsp. lemon juice (optional)
1/3 c. Crisco
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. half and half
2 sticks butter
3 c. unsifted flour
1 tsp. vanilla
6 eggs (room temperature)
1/2 tsp. baking powder

Preparation

Cream the sugar, butter and Crisco together. Add eggs, one at a time, beating good after each one.
Add flour and half and half alternately, ending with flour.
Add baking powder, salt and vanilla. Beat well.
Pour into greased and floured tube pan (makes one big cake).
Put in cold oven at 325\u00b0 for 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Watch after 1 hour.
My oven cooks fast and it only takes 1 hour and 20 minutes.