country pound cake

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 2 2/3 cups white sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon lemon extract

Recipe

• do not preheat the oven. grease 10 inch tube pan and line bottom with wax paper or parchment paper.
• sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. set aside.
• in a large bowl, beat the butter, shortening, and sugar on low speed for 10 minutes. add the eggs one at a time, blending well after each addition. alternately add the flour mixture and milk, mixing well. add the vanilla and lemon extracts.
• pour batter into the prepared pan. set the oven temperature to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c. bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of cake comes out clean. allow cake to cool in the pan for 1 hour. remove to a cake rack and cool for at least 3 hours.