Description
This prized recipe was highly sought after in Eden, North Carolina. My great-grandma will haunt me forever for making this public, but it’s too good to keep to myself.
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup shortening
- 3 cups white sugar
- 6 large eggs
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch fluted tube pan (such as a Bundt®).
- Mix flour
- baking powder
- and salt together in a bowl; sift the flour mixture twice into a separate bowl. Cream butter
- shortening
- and sugar in another large bowl until smooth; stir eggs and milk into creamed mixture until thoroughly combined.
- Gradually mix flour into moist ingredients to make a smooth batter; stir lemon and vanilla extracts into batter. Continue mixing until no sugar granules are visible. Pour batter into prepared tube pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until top is springy and cake is set in the center
- about 90 minutes. Let cake cool in the pan until sides separate from pan; turn out onto a rack to finish cooling.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Total Time: 2 hrs 45 mins
Servings: 12