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Brown Sugar
Pound Cake
From Mom's Recipe Box

2 sticks butter
1/2 c shortening (i.e. Crisco)
1 box + 1 c. brown sugar
5 eggs
3 1/2 c. flour
1 tspn baking power
1/2 tspn salt
1 c. milk
1 tspn vanilla

Cream butter and shorting together (do not use all butter ... you do need the shorting). Add brown sugar and beat until well blended. Add eggs and mix. in a separate bowl mix flour baking powder and salt. Add milk and dry ingredients alternately. Add vanilla.

Pour into a greased and floured bunt pan. Bake in a slow oven at 300° for 1 3/4 to 2 hours (until an inserted toothpick comes out clean). Turn out on to a plate to cool.

Icing

1 1/2 sticks margarine
2 c. chopped toasted walnuts
1/2 c. milk
1 box powdered sugar
1 tspn vanilla

In a sauce pan melt margarine and milk and bring to a boil, with care not to burn it. Add box of powdered sugar stirring constantly. Stir until sugar is well blended. Allow the mixture to boil for 2 to 3 minutes with out stirring. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and nuts. Spoon over cake. If the center of the cake gets a little much icing in it carefully spoon it out and reapply it to the top of the cake.




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