Million Dollar Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups butter
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 6 eggs
• 3/4 cup milk
• 4 cups flour

Instructions

1. Cream butter and sugar; add vanilla and almond extract.
2. Beat in eggs one at a time.
3. Sift flour twice; add alternately with milk. Blend well.
4. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan. Bake for 1 hour and 40 minutes at 350°F (less if your oven runs hot).
5. Take out of pan after 5 minutes and cool on rack.

Notes

• "This was one of Uncle Edward's favorite recipes! It is the only pound cake recipe I make because it melts in your mouth!"
• Recipe courtesy Mrs. Mary Igras, from the cookbook Favorite Recipes from Pentecostal Church Ladies (1969).

Source: Family cookbook