Granny Bill’s Pound Cake

Kim’s Dishes

½ cup (2 sticks) butter

3 cups sugar

3 cups all-purpose flour

½ cup vegetable shortening

5 eggs

⅔ cup milk

1 cup chopped pecans, optional

Preheat oven at 350°.

Cream together butter and shortening. Add sugar, 1 cup at a time. Mix in eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Sift flour. Stir in dry ingredients, alternatively with milk; beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Bake for 1 hour and twenty minutes at 350°.

For cupcakes bake 15 minutes at 350°.

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