1 c Butter
1/2 c Soft shortening
3 c Sugar
5 Eggs
3 c All-purpose flour; (Mama
-Always used Gold Medal)
1 ts Baking powder
1/8 ts Salt
1 c Milk
1 ts Each vanilla and lemon
-Extract; (Mama always
-Substituted almond For the
-lemon)
Cream butter, shortening and sugar until very light and fluffy. Then add
eggs, one at a time until very creamy. Blend in flour, baking powder and
salt mixture alternately with milk in small amounts, beating well after
each addition. Blend in flavorings. Turn into greased and floured 10-inch
tube pan. Bake in preheated oven 350 degrees 1 hour. Turn off oven heat and
allow cake to remain in oven 15 minutes longer. (Or place cake in cold
oven, set temperature to 300 degrees and bake 1 hour 40 minutes.) Cake is
done when cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10-15
minutes in pan on cake rack, then remove from pan and finish cooling on
rack. Delicious as is, dusted with confectioners sugar, or frosted with
7-minute icing.
Yields
8 Servings