Cold Oven Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sticks butter
1/2 c. Crisco
3 c. sugar
5 large eggs, beaten
3 c. cake flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 c. milk
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. lemon extract

Preparation

Cream butter, Crisco and sugar well.
Continue creaming and slowly add beaten eggs.
Sift flour.
Add salt and baking powder. Mix well.
Add dry ingredients alternately with milk to the creamed mixture, beginning and ending with flour.
Add extracts and blend well.
Pour into a well-greased and floured large tube pan.
Place in cold oven on the lower rack.
Turn oven on at 325\u00b0. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes.
Do not open oven door.