Ingredients
1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening, softened
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp fine salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350˚.
With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting and ending with flour. Mix in vanilla.
Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
