125 Yearold Pound Cake P&C
- 1/2 pound butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 3 cups sugar
- 5 eggs, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, divided use
- 1 cup black walnuts, chopped fine
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup cream
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Cream butter and shortening. Add sugar, beat well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Add flavoring and beat.
- Mix 1/4 cup flour with the nuts.
- Mix baking powder into the remaining flour and add to the wet mixture alternately with cream, starting and ending with flour. Fold in nuts.
- Bake in a large greased and floured tube pan for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Do not open oven during the first hour of baking.
butter, shortening, sugar, eggs, vanilla, allpurpose flour, black walnuts, baking powder, cream
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/125-yearold-pound-cake-p-c-52843121 (may not work)