Buttermilk Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 cup shortening
1 1/2 teaspoons flavoring (vanilla, almond, lemon or whatever you like)
3 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk (or substitute 1 cup sweet milk with 1 Tbsp. lemon juice stirred in)

Preparation

Cream sugar, shortening and eggs.
Add flavoring.
Combine dry ingredients.
Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk.
Pour batter into greased and floured tube cake pan.
Bake for 1 1/2 hours at 300\u00b0.
Cool 10 minutes and turn out of pan.
VARIATIONS: Add 1 cup of chocolate chips, melted, to batter for chocolate cake.
Add grated orange or lemon peel for orange or lemon cake.