Country Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter softened
• ½ cup shortening
• 2 ⅔ cups white sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon lemon extract

Instructions

• Do not preheat the oven. Grease 10 inch tube pan and line bottom with wax paper or parchment paper.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat the butter, shortening, and sugar on low speed for 10 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, blending well after each addition. Alternately add the flour mixture and milk, mixing well. Add the vanilla and lemon extracts.
• Pour batter into the prepared pan. Set the oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C. Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of cake comes out clean. Allow cake to cool in the pan for 1 hour. Remove to a cake rack and cool for at least 3 hours.

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