Cold Oven Pound Cake

My mother made this pound cake recipe many times during my formative years. I always found it odd that the oven did not need preheating, but the cake always turned out exceptionally well for her and me as well.

• Ready In: 2 hrs 5 mins
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 1  cup butter
• 1  cup vegetable shortening
• 3  cups sugar
• 6  eggs
• 1  cup buttermilk
• 4  cups all-purpose flour
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1  teaspoon  almond extract

Directions

1. Cream butter, shortening, sugar and eggs for 10 minutes.
2. Alternately add buttermilk and flour, beating well each time.
3. Add extracts.
4. Pour into greased and floured 10" tube pan and put into cold oven.
5. Turn temperature to 300*.
6. Bake 1 hour and 45 minutes or till cake tests done.