Aunt Johnnie's Pound Cake

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100g shortening
225g butter
2 cups white sugar
5 eggs
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup milk
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 cups cake flour, sifted

1. Preheat oven to 150 degrees C. Lightly grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
2. Cream shortening, butter and sugar until light and fluffy (for best results use an electric mixer). This will take a while. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
3. Combine baking powder and flour. Stir into creamed mixture alternately with the milk, starting and ending with flour. Pour batter into prepared pan.
4. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.