Mrs. Pitts' Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. Crisco
1 stick margarine
3 c. sugar
3 c. Swans Down cake flour
1 c. milk
1/2 tsp. salt
6 eggs
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 Tbsp. vanilla flavoring

Preparation

Cream Crisco, butter and sugar.
As you continue to blend, add flour, a little at a time.
Add milk slowly, then salt and baking powder.
Add eggs, one at a time, then vanilla.
Grease and flour large tube cake pan.
Fill a little over half the pan (do not fill anymore than this amount, it will cook over and down sides).
Bake at 325\u00b0 for 1 hour and 15 minutes.