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      Title: Brown Sugar Pound Cake
 Categories: Cakes, Celebrity, Desserts
      Yield: 1 Cake
 
      1 c  Butter
    1/2 c  Crisco shortening
      5    Eggs
  4 1/2 c  Light brown sugar
  3 1/2 c  Plain flour
    1/2 ts Baking powder
      1 c  Milk; or as needed

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      1 c  Pecans; chopped
    1/2 c  Butter
      4 c  Confectioners' sugar
           Milk; to thin
 
  Let eggs and butter sit until they are room temperature. Cream butter
  and Crisco together. Add eggs one at a time, creaming after each. Add
  brown sugar. Sift together flour and baking powder. Add dry
  ingredients alternately with 1 c milk to sugar mixture. Bake in
  greased and floured tube pan for 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours at 325°F.
  
  Toast pecans in 1/2 c butter in thick broiler pan until they brown
  well. Let cool a little, then add confectioners' sugar. Add milk
  enough to thin to spreading consistency. Spread on top of cake. Some
  should drip down sides and center but should not be spread anywhere
  except on top.
  
  Recipe by Willard H. Scott, Jr.
 
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