An old-fashioned pound cake that goes into a cold oven before baking.
Ingredients
- white sugar: 3 cups
- margarine: 1 cup
- shortening: 0.5 cup
- eggs: 3 piece
- ½ teaspoons vanilla extract: 1 piece
- all-purpose flour: 3 cups
- milk: 1 cup
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Stages of cooking
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Do not preheat the oven. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
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Cream together sugar, margarine, and shortening in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Add flour alternately with milk, beating briefly after each addition. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
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Place in the cold oven, then set the temperature to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
