Old Fashioned Pound Cake
"This is from the Great American Recipes collection. To freeze: cut into slices and wrap in foil or plastic wrap."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
20
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄4 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons lemon extract
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 3 eggs
- 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 cup milk
- lemon slice (to garnish) (optional)
directions
- In a large bowl, cream butter and shortening until smooth. Add sugar, vanilla, lemon extract and lemon juice.
- Beat until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
- Sift together flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk, mixing thoroughly after each addition.
- Grease and flour a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool 15 minutes on wire rack, then remove from pan.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
marisk
honolulu, HI
<p>Aloha! I just recently started spending more time in the kitchen and am learning that cooking and baking can be fun as well as challenging. My favorite cookbook resources are my 'gourmet' sister and the very patient and generous Ohana of Zaar. Mahalo nui loa! <br /><br />My rating system: The first time I try a recipe, I follow the instructions as given; if I do a little tweaking, I keep that in mind when rating. It's not right to rate lower because of something I did or didn't do. <br />***** ... Excellent! Tasted great with/without tweaking. <br />**** ... Loved It! Tasted great with/without tweaking. <br />No stars ... May be an excellent recipe but I was unable to get it to work for me. May or may not try again later. We don't all have the same taste preferences. I've found recipes with lots of five stars that just didn't work for me and some with less that I thought were great. <br />Thank you All for sharing!</p>
