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Mae’s Pound Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 Stick Butter (room temperature)
1 Stick Margarine
1/2 Cup Shortening
5 Eggs
2 ˝ Cups Sugar
3 Cups Cake Flour
1/2 Teaspoon baking powder
1 Cup Milk
1 Teaspoon Vanilla (not imitation)
2 Teaspoons Lemon Flavoring

LEMON FROSTING (for Mae’s pound cake)
1/2 Stick Butter (room temperature)
Grated Rind of 1 Lemon
Juice of 1 Lemon
1 Box Confectioner’s Sugar (10X)
Cream together butter and sugar. Add grated rind and juice of one lemon to right consistency. Frost cool cake.
Directions:
Directions:
Cream together butter, margarine, shortening and sugar.
Add eggs one at a time, beat until fluffy.
Add baking powder to flour and flavorings to milk.
Add flour alternating with milk (1/3 flour, ˝ milk, 1/3 flour, ˝ milk,1/3 flour).
Put in oven set at 325 degrees. Bake 1˝ hours.
Cool about 10 minutes then turn out onto a cake rake.
Frost when completely cooled.

 

 

 

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