Buttermilk Pound Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup shortening
• 1 1/2 teaspoons flavoring (vanilla, almond, lemon or whatever you like)
• 3 cups flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup buttermilk (or substitute 1 cup sweet milk with 1 tbsp. lemon juice stirred in)

Recipe

• 1 cream sugar, shortening and eggs.
• 2 add flavoring.
• 3 combine dry ingredients.
• 4 add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk.
• 5 pour batter into greased and floured tube cake pan.
• 6 bake for 1 1/2 hours at 300°.
• 7 cool 10 minutes and turn out of pan.
• 8 variations: add 1 cup of chocolate chips, melted, to batter for chocolate cake.
• 9 add grated orange or lemon peel for orange or lemon cake.