How to make Pound Cake

One of the students in the baking school "Beckys World Events School" recently asked that she would love to learn the Pound Cake, so I decide to teach her and also post the recipe.

Ingredients

1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract



Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together.
Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.

Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour.
Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

Tasty cake for breakfast with tea, or eating during business meetings.