Paula Deen's Mama's Pound Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 15
• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup butter flavor crisco or 1/2 cup any shortening
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 grease & flour a 10" tube pan or bundt pan.
• 3 sift dry ingredients.
• 4 cream butter & shortening together.
• 5 add sugar a little at a time.
• 6 cream until fluffy.
• 7 add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition to fully incorporate the eggs into the batter.
• 8 add dry ingredients and milk to mixture alternating; starting and ending with flour.
• 9 mix in vanilla.
• 10 pour into prepared pan.
• 11 bake 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until it passes the toothpick test.