Etta Mae Barron
Farmerville First Baptist Church Sesquicentennial Cookbook 1847-1997
- 3 cup sugar
- 2 sticks butter
- 1/2 cup butter flavor Crisco
- 3 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup sweet milk
- 5 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup coconut (if you want coconut)
Mix sugar, butter, and Crisco and beat well. Add one egg at a time. Add milk, flour, baking powder, and vanilla. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 1/2 hours (do not over-cook).
You can make this a plain cake. You can put any flavor you want or you can add your coconut to make your coconut pound cake.