Chocolate Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sticks butter or margarine
1/2 c. solid Crisco
3 c. sugar
5 eggs
1/2 c. cocoa
3 c. self-rising flour
1 1/4 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
dash of salt

Preparation

Set out all ingredients an hour before mixing.
Cream butter or margarine, Crisco and sugar.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
Add cocoa.
Add flour and milk alternately, ending with flour.
Add salt and vanilla.
Beat well.
Pour batter into a tube pan of which only the bottom has been greased. Bake at 325\u00b0 for 1 hour and 35 minutes.