Reduce speed to low and begin to alternately add the flour mixture and the milk into the creamed butter, starting and ending with the flour, until all is fully incorporated. Add eggs, one a time, blending each egg in completely before adding the next. Add the sugar 1/2 cup at a time and continue beating on medium until mixture becomes fluffy. Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl set aside.īeat the butter and margarine on medium speed until creamy. Butter and flour or prepare a 12-cup bundt pan with Baker's Joy baking spray set aside. 2-1/2 teaspoons vanilla or almond extract.1/2 cup vegetable shortening or (1 stick) margarine, softened at room temperature.1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened at room temperature.Recipe: Grandma Mac's Perfect Southern Pound Cake ©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish I relied on the recipe that one of her sons, my Uncle Jim, who has taken on the roll of the bearer of pound cakes at every family event, has passed on to me. Seems Grandma, like most other cooks, went about changing up the recipe over the years. I can tell you that three different family members have given me three different recipes that they all say were Grandma Mac's recipes and that they each got directly from her. Like most everybody else, Grandma's original pound cake evolved a bit over time. I'm still hoping that maybe one day that pan will show up at my house. Her family once lived right by Grandma, and even after they moved into another home not too far away, she made regular stops to visit and check on Grandma, up until she moved away. I think Miss Edie, a long time family friend, may have gotten it, but if so, she was a deserving recipient. She gave her old house to one of my cousins who helped her around the house a lot, and I have no idea what happened with all her things, but I sure would have loved to have had Grandma's old bundt cake pan. By the time Grandma died, my Daddy had also both passed and in those last months of her life she had been taken to live in north Alabama with an aunt on my father's side. Grandma lived to be almost 98, and actually lived on her own up until those last couple of years. In fact, if you did happen to return it, she might be likely to bake you another cake! And they always came on a pretty plate that she did not ever expect you to return. If she came to your house for dinner, she brought a pound cake.

If we were coming for dinner to her house, she made a pound cake. If there was an occasion, she made a pound cake for it. My grandma was known for her pound cakes.

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