Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. sugar
2 sticks butter or margarine
5 Tbsp. Crisco
5 eggs
3 c. Swans Down cake flour
1 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla or lemon extract or 1 c. black walnuts, rolled in flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder

Preparation

Cream butter, sugar and Crisco.
Add all eggs, slightly beaten.
Add flour and milk (starting and ending with flour).
Add flavoring and baking powder.
Bake at 325\u00b0 for 1 1/2 hours in tube cake pan.