Mom's Lemon Pound Cake

This is my mom Yvonne’s recipe for pound cake. Everybody we know loves this cake. At church gatherings she never has a piece left. This is also a excellent cake for Easter...

 Yvonne’s Lemon Pound Cake

2 sticks butter

½ cup crisco

3 cups sugar

5 eggs

3 cups cake flour

1 ½ cup butter, softened

½ teas. baking powder

1 cup milk

1 teas.lemon,vanilla and butter flavoring

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Beat well after each one. Add flour and baking powder together in small bowl. Pour vanilla, lemon and butter flavorings in milk and mix. Add flour mixture and milk mixture together alternating each until all in. Place in a well greased tube pan.

Bake at 350 for 1 hour or until tooth pick come out clean.

This is a great icing that goes with the lemon pound cake.

2 eggs

4 cups confectionary sugar sifted

1 stick of butter  room temp.

1 teas.vanilla, lemon and butter flavorings

Mix the above ingredients until smooth and creamy. If the icing is a little stiff add a teas. of milk until its spreadable.Keep cake in cool place bacause of the eggs.