Homemade buttermilk . While this recipe calls for buttermilk, you do not have to run out to buy it. You can easily make it at home with whole milk and white vinegar, or lemon juice.

Her pound cake recipe is written using Crisco instead of butter, likely a result of mid-20th century preferences and easily affordable resources. Otherwise, her recipe is very typical, ...

Cathy Marino has been making this pound cake for 50 years, and she’s not bored with it yet. ... 1/2 pound melted butter. 1/2 cup Crisco shortening. 3 cups sugar. 6 eggs. 3 1/4 cups flour.

Directions. Make the cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease fluted pan with butter and dust with flour. Beat Crisco and butter on medium until fluffy.

Mary Beth York from Niles, Michigan, was copying some old recipes a friend had collected over the years and stuck in the back of a cookbook from 1942 when she ...