How to Make Old Fashioned Southern Pound Cake

Old fashioned Southern Pound Cake is a family favorite for many. Here's the pound cake recipe to bake and enjoy this sumptuous dessert.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 sticks margarine
• 1/2 cup Crisco
• 6 eggs
• 3 cups plain flour
• 1/2 teasp baking powder
• 1 cup cold milk
• 1 teasp lemon flavoring
• 1 teasp vanilla flavoring
• Mixing bowl
• Tube Baking Pan

1. Cream the margarine, Crisco, and add sugar slowly, creaming until very light and fluffy. Separate eggs beat the yolk and add to margarine
   sugar, Crisco, mixture.

2. Add the lemon and vanilla flavorings to the mixture.

3. Sift flour, baking powder together. Add the flour mixture and milk alternately to the sugar and margarine mixture.

4. Beat the mixture for 2 to 3 minutes or until stiff. Pour the mixture into a greased tube cake pan. Place in a cold oven. Bake 1 hour 15 minutes at 350 degrees.

5. When the cake is done. Take the pound cake out of oven and let set for a few minutes. Remove from tube pan. Place on a cake plate and serve the pound cake while still warm. Taste great with coffee or iced tea.

[breann]

on 7/20/2009 that picture looks so delicous great recipe,thanks for the aarticule

[MissAudrey]

on 3/30/2009 Take it from a Southerner, everyone should know how to make a pound cake! Great article! 5*

[Kathymcbain]

on 3/29/2009 Yummy, this sounds sooo good! I'm moving down south soon so I'll have to print this so I can impress my neighbors! :)