Pound Cake

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups butter softened (real butter, not margarine)

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

2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. With a mixer, cream butter and sugar till smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each one. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk. Mix in vanilla. Do not over mix. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and cover loosely with a sheet of tin foil. Bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, removing the foil half way through cooking time Cake is done when toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. (Note: Add about ten frozen strawberries and 1/2 cup sugar to a sauce pan and bring to a boil. Drizzle over pound cake before serving.)