Old-Fashioned Lemon Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups white sugar
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup shortening (such as Crisco®)
• 5 tablespoons whole milk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons lemon extract
• 0.25 teaspoon baking powder

Steps

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease two 9×5-inch loaf pans.
2. Combine sugar, flour, eggs, shortening, milk, vanilla, lemon extract, and baking powder in a large bowl; mix until batter is smooth. Divide batter equally between the two prepared pans.
3. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the centers of the cakes comes out clean, about 30 minutes.