Favorite Chocolate Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sticks butter
1/2 c. Crisco (solid)
3 c. sugar
5 eggs, separated
3 c. sifted cake flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 c. Hershey's cocoa
1 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Sift cake flour together with baking powder and cocoa 2 times. Cream shortening with 2 1/4 cups sugar.
Add egg yolks, one at a time.
Then alternately add dry ingredients with wets (milk and vanilla).
Then fold in egg whites, beaten to peaks and into which 3/4 cup sugar has been incorporated.
Cut waxed paper to fit bottom of 10-inch tube pan.
Grease the paper and dust with cocoa after placing in pan.
Bake 1 hour and 20 to 30 minutes.
Test with a toothpick.
Do not overbake.
Cool in pan on wire rack for 30 minutes.
Turn out carefully.
Cool completely before slicing.