Old-Fashioned Lemon Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups white sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
5 eggs
1 cup shortening (such as Crisco(R))
5 tablespoons whole milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons lemon extract
1/4 teaspoon baking powder

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease two 9x5-inch loaf pans.
Combine sugar, flour, eggs, shortening, whole milk, vanilla extract, lemon extract, and baking powder in a large bowl; pour into the prepared pans.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 30 minutes.