Baptist Pound Cake

Ingredients

Dianne Agnew, Bullock County

½ cup Crisco

3 cups sugar

1 cup milk

1 stick butter

5 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

½ tsp. baking powder

3 cups plain flour

Preparation

Sift flour, baking powder, and salt.  Cream sugar, butter, and Crisco.  Add eggs – one at a time, beating after each.  Add dry ingredients alternating with milk and vanilla.  Beat for however long.  Grease and flour a Bundt or angel food pan.  .  Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 300 – 325 degrees.