This has been a community wide favorite for generations!
Preheat over to 325 degrees. Coat pan with shortening and sprinkle thoroughly with flour.
3 cups sugar
3 cups shortening
3 cups PLAIN flour
6 eggs
1 cup milk
3 tsp lemon or vanilla flavoring
Cream sugar and shortening, add eggs one at a time. Sift flour and add alternately with milk.
Empty into a bundt style pan. Don’t cheat and “Pam” style spray-it is bad to stick!
Cook for 1 hour & 25 minutes. Let Cool, empty onto large plate.
For holiday variety, remove 1/2 to 1 cup of each desired color, mix each color in small bowl with food coloring (to desired color). Put in a cup or so of regular color cake batter in pan, spoon your colors around the batter in your cake pan, one at a time. Top with the rest of the regular batter. Each piece will have its own design when cut!
lenwilliamscarver said,
August 26, 2012 @ 12:11 am
So don’t use anything in Bundt pan? this sounds wonderfully delicious! :)
beebeesworld said,
August 26, 2012 @ 12:17 am
not sure what you mean by “dont use anything but bundt pan-you can use any pound cake style pan…
lenwilliamscarver said,
August 26, 2012 @ 1:50 am
Oh I meant to grease it, you said not to use spray stuff so I wondered if I still oil and flour bundt pan or any pan that I use. some things you don’t have to grease some you do so I am wondering on this one. :)
beebeesworld said,
August 26, 2012 @ 10:24 pm
well, use a bundt pan with the “no stick” coating and I sometimes have trouble with a little piece here and there sticking….
billgncs said,
August 26, 2012 @ 12:12 am
whenever I have traditional pound cake, I always go back to memories of a little boy at my grandmothers…. such is the power of pound cake
beebeesworld said,
August 26, 2012 @ 12:15 am
so true, my grandma fixed this one!
Sandra Bennett said,
August 26, 2012 @ 2:52 pm
Sounds great ! Thanks ! Bill should love it, but always needs to have his pound cake piled high with Redi Whip !
beebeesworld said,
August 26, 2012 @ 9:05 pm
Well you have two of the three ingredients for “to die for” strawberry shortcake. This pound cake is delicious with strawberries and whipped cream!