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                             Cherry Pound Cake
 
 Recipe By     : Margaret Davis - From her own cookbook
 Serving Size  : 24   Preparation Time :0:30
 Categories    : Cakes
 
   Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
 --------  ------------  --------------------------------
    3      cups          sugar
      1/2  cup           shortening
    1      cup           butter
    5                    eggs
    3      cups          all-purpose flour
      1/2  teaspoon      baking powder
      1/4  teaspoon      salt
    2      teaspoons     cherry flavoring
    1      cup           milk
      1/2  cup           cherries in juice -- chopped
 
 Cream sugar, shortening and butter; add eggs, one at a time.  Add flour,
 baking powder, salt, and cherry flavoring alternately with milk.  Beat until
 creamy.  Stir in cherries.  Bake in greased tube pan at 325 degrees for 1 hour
 and then increase heat to 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
 
 
 
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 NOTES : Cherry flavoring has been hard to find.  I substitute juice from the
 marachino cherries.  I also add one tablespoon of vanilla to the recipe.  -
 John Setzler

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