Hilda's Cake:
(My mom's friend Rick, given to him by Faye Miles)
(My mom's friend Rick, given to him by Faye Miles)
1/2 cup Crisco
2 sticks oleo (or margarine)
3 cup sugar
5 eggs, room temperature
3 cup flour
1/2 tsp BP
1 c milk
1 tsp coconut
1 tsp rum
Syrup:
1 c sugar
1/4 cup + 1 T water
1 tsp almond extract
Preheat oven to 325
Cream Oleo,Crisco and sugar well. Add eggs one at a time. Sift flour with BP and add alternately with milk to the batter, starting and ending with the flour. Add flavorings.
Bake in a greased tube pan 1 1/2 hours. Let cool for ten minutes.Loosen cake so it won't stick and place top side up on rack to cool. Pour on the syrup mixture and let soak in.
This cake won the blue ribbon for the cake contest at my recent studio party. The best pound cake I've had yet.
ReplyDeleteLinda Blondheim