Chocolate Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. Crisco
5 eggs
1/2 c. cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla
3 c. plain flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. buttermilk

Preparation

Sift flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
Beat together the sugar, butter and Crisco until creamy.
Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
Add cocoa and vanilla.
Add flour and buttermilk (alternating the dry ingredients with the liquid and beginning and ending with flour).
Bake in tube pan for 1 1/2 hours at 300\u00b0.