Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. sugar
3 c. Swans Down cake flour
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. Crisco
1 c. sweet milk
6 large eggs or 7 or 8 small eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. lemon
1 tsp. rum
1 tsp. almond

Preparation

Cream sugar with butter and Crisco.
Add eggs, one at a time. Stir in flour first and last, alternately with milk.
Add extracts.
Bake at 325\u00b0 for 1 hour.
Do not open oven door until then.
Check to see if cake leaves sides of pan.
Bake in a tube pan.
Start in cold oven.
Have ingredients at room temperature.