This was my Grand Aunt, Ruth Canipe Hill’s pound cake recipe, and it is one of the best pound cakes I have ever eaten. It has a very fine crumb and a wonderful flavor.
Cake flour gives a finer texture to cakes than all-purpose flour
- 1/2 pound unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 3 cups cake flour
- 3 cups sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
Cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift dry ingredients together. Add vanilla and lemon extract to milk. Add dry ingredients to sugar and egg mixture, alternating with liquid, beating just to blend, until all ingredients are combined. Beat batter on medium speed for 5 minutes. Place into greased and floured 10-inch tube pan and place into COLD oven. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15-20 minutes until a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out clean.
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Gabrielle said
March 3 2012 @ 4:50 pm
I LLLLLOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEEE this cake recipe, i have been looking for a pound cake recipe for a LONG time and have finally found one!! all the other ones that i have found were all “new” not old fashioned. i was looking for the old fashioned dense, buttery, but not light like all the “NEW” kinds that people are now making! THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH!
Gabrielle
Sharon said
November 26 2011 @ 3:01 pm
I have searched and searched for a recipe for a good pound cake. I found a recipe for Aunt Ruths Pound Cake. I baked two cakes with this recipe for this 2011 Thanksgiving. The cakes were dense, soft, and very creamy. The flavors of the cakes were out of this world. When ever you can eat cake right out of the frig. without warming it up in the microwave oven you know you got a good cake. This recipe will be my basic for every vanilla cake that I will ever make.
Sharon
Fort Washington, MD
Edel said
July 3 2011 @ 3:13 pm
It’s in the oven. Hope I do your recipe justice! I’m one of the world’s worst bakers …. so keep your fingers crossed!
AntBee said
June 24 2011 @ 7:03 pm
This was also my grandmothers pound cake recipe.
Every one loved her pound cake with some of her homemade fresh peach or vanilla ice cream.
She would always tell us how important it wa to have you ingredients at room temp.
The night before she made this cake she would put out her cup of milk (covered), butter, shortening, eggs on the sink.
She mostly used the vanilla and almond flavoring but would sometimes add the lemon with some lemon zest.
She made a 7 minute frosting for this cake, and I tell you it was heaven
We could not stop eating this cake and of course there would be nothing for the next day which was usually a Monday.
That was the day she would make her red beans and rice, and wash & hang her sheets and towles out on the cloths line.
She would make a tossed salad with her home made French dressing, and corn bread or muffins, and it was a meal fit for a king!
Thank you for posting this recipe!
shell said
May 11 2011 @ 1:02 pm
I wanted to try some one else pound cake other than my family southern poud cake I found that this cake was real light and fluffy nice & buttery but a little to sweet & light for a true old fashion southern pound cake it should be yellow and less sweet and a little heavy but all and all it was good.
Erika said
April 16 2011 @ 9:01 am
I figured out the problem, I was looking at the wrong recipe. it is Grandma Hill’s Plain cake that I originally wanted. But now I will be trying Aunt Ruth’s pound cake.
Thank you so much for your great recipes!
javanda bradley said
March 15 2011 @ 11:16 am
the best cake i ever made and ate. better than my mother pound cakes. and also i love chef rick’s grandmother pound cake recipe . both are good.
Mickey said
May 31 2010 @ 4:22 pm
This was delicious. I have shared this with numerous friends. Very easy to make and the directions were easy to follow.
Ron said
March 25 2009 @ 1:31 pm
This is ABSOLUTELY the best pound cake that I have ever made. My grandmother would be proud of me.