Mom's Buttermilk Walnut Pound Cake

Recipe Rating:	1 Rating5
Categories:	Cakes, Quick & Easy, For Kids, Healthy
Keywords:	nuts, snacks, buttermilk
Serves:	8
Prep Time:	15 Min
Cook Time:	1 Hr 15 Min

Ingredients

1 c	shortening (like crisco)
1 3/4 c	sugar
4	eggs
3 c	flour
1 tsp	baking soda
1 tsp	baking powder
1/2 tsp	salt
1 tsp	almond extract
1 c	walnuts, broken lightly
1 c	buttermilk

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Lucille Hoerle

Well Seasoned

Summit, NY (pop. 3,017)

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Member Since Sep 2011

Lucille's Notes:

Obviously this was my mom's recipe and I am so happy that I was able to get this recipe before she passed away. It reminds me so much of her when I make it.

It is not very rich and has a delicate taste but a hardy crumb. I love this pound cake especially being able to post it on National Pound Cake Day in her memory.

Directions

Mix shortening with suagr together. Add eggs, one at a time. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Blend flour mixture and buttermilk into shortening mixture, 1/3 at a time, along with extract and nuts. After all ingredients are blended, mix 3 to 5 minutes with electric mixer on medium.

Grease and flour a bundt pan or spring form tube pan. Bake in preheated 350 oven for 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool in pan.

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Roxanne... Ershenen

Mar 4, 2012

This sounds so good, I'm glad you did get this. I kick myself for not getting my Grandmothers recipe for a cake.
How much sugar and how much cinnamon?

Lucille Hoerle hoerlel

Mar 4, 2012

I'm sorry, Roxanne, but I am not sure where the cinnamon sugar mixture came from. I may have hit the suggestion box below sugar. I did edit the recipe and it is only 1 3/4 cups of sugar.

Maggie Jackson blukentuckygirl

Mar 4, 2012

Maybe I am missing something but I don't see where it says how much buttermilk to add. It sounds like a good recipe. I can't wait to try it.

Lucille Hoerle hoerlel

Mar 4, 2012

Oh, I'm sorry! I did forget the most important part of the recipe. I did edit it. Thank you for noticing the omission.

Barbara Gabriel potluck

Mar 5, 2012

What kind of walnuts? Black walnuts or English walnuts?

Lucille Hoerle hoerlel

Mar 6, 2012

We have always used English walnuts since they are the ones that you find in supermarkets here, but if you have a source of Black walnuts, give them a try.