Brown Sugar Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sticks butter or margarine
1 lb. box brown sugar (light)
5 large eggs
1 c. milk
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 c. black walnuts (optional)
1/2 c. Crisco
1 c. white sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
3 c. all-purpose flour, sifted 3 times (may use cake flour)
2 Tbsp. flour to roll nuts in

Preparation

Have all ingredients at room temperature.
Cream butter and Crisco; add sugars.
Beat for 5 minutes on medium speed of mixer after the sugars are mixed with butter.
Beat in eggs, one at a time.
Do not overbeat.
Beat only until yolks cannot be seen or disappear.
Add flour and milk alternately, beginning and ending with flour.
Stir in vanilla and nuts.
Pour into a greased and floured tube pan.
Start in a cold oven.
After oven light goes off, bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Set oven at 325\u00b0.
When you take cake out, let it sit in pan for about 5 minutes on cake rack before removing to plate.