MY MOTHER'S POUND CAKE

1 stick butter
1/2 cup Crisco shortening
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
31/2 cups Swans Down Cake Flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Salt (pinch)
1-1/4 cup sweet milk
2 teaspoons vanilla flavor

Cream butter and Crisco very well in an electric mixer.
Add 3 cups sugar (one at a time) creaming well with each addition.
Add 6 eggs (one at a time) and beat well after each one with mixer set at higher speed.
Sift cake flour, baking powder and salt.
Add 1/2 of this, 1/2 of milk, rest of flour mixture, rest of milk. Continue beating extremely well.
Add vanilla flavor. Beat well.
Grease and flour a tube pan.
Pour mixture in pan.
Bake 1 hour and 15 min. at 350 degrees.
Cool.
Enjoy.


Antoinette Klein