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Instructions on how to make pound cake - Author's Purpose: Inform

Materials
bundt pan
mixer
measuring cup(s)
oven
oven mits

Ingredients


1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan

1/2 cup vegetable shortening

3 cups sugar

5 eggs

3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan

1/2 teaspoon fine salt

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.



With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

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Desultory
> adj.
>> jumping from one thing to another, disconnected
>>>erratic, random, and unplanned
>>>> Dayjon had a desultory academic record; he had changed majors 12 times in 3 years.

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