Pound Cake (Paula Deen)

Ingredients:

½ pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan
½ cup vegetable shortening
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
½ tsp fine salt
½ tsp baking powder
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and avke for 1 to 1 ½ hours until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.