My grandmother Sasser made the best cakes in the world. Her pound cake was my most favorite. It had to be 1000 calories a slice....it tasted that good. She would get up on Saturday mornings and bake cakes and I can still remember how wonderful her house smelled as she pulled cake after cake out of her oven. She never baked for just herself....nope...she baked a cake for everyone. This morning our librarian Lisa came and told us she had made a pound cake and had brought butter. I love them for breakfast....toasted. I love them for snack...I love it for dessert. I love pound cake....so I went downstairs and got Trina, Beth and I all a piece and finished my coffee in absolute heaven. I enjoyed it so much I thought I would share my grandmother's recipe with you. My favorite part of the cake....is the crust. I guess that is just like my favorite part of the puffy fish at Captain D's is the crust.
Ingredients
1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
3 cups sugar
5 eggs (to be added one at a time)
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon real 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. Happy eating.
1 comment:
Sounds like a good day. I love pound cake. Thank you for the recipe.
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