Mamas Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter
• 1/2 cup Crisco 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

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Cream butter and shortening together.
3. Add sugar, a little at a time.
4. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each.
5. Sift together dry ingredients and add to mixture alternately with milk, starting with flour and ending with flour.
6. Add vanilla.
7. Pour into greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 1/2 hours.