Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. plain flour (White Lily brand makes lighter cake)
2 sticks Blue Bonnet margarine
1 c. milk
3 c. sugar
5 eggs
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 c. Crisco shortening
2 tsp. vanilla (may use 1 tsp. vanilla and another favorite flavor, lemon, etc.)

Preparation

Cream butter and shortening together in mixer until smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time.
Add sugar, one cup at a time, and add slowly.
Add flour, 1 cup at a time, mixing in 1/2 cup milk as needed.
After mixture is all mixed, add another 1/2 cup milk with 1 teaspoon baking powder dissolved into milk.
Add vanilla.
Bake in large pan, 9 x 12-inch character pans.
(Recipe may be cut in half if a large cake is not desired.)
Bake at 325\u00b0 for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, depending how deep pan is.
A 9 x 12-inch takes only 1 hour.
Check at 50 minutes.