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Apple Cider Pound Cake

1 cup butter or oleo, softened
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1 cup apple cider
1 tsp vanilla extract

Combine butter and shortening, mixing well; gradually add sugar, continuing to beat. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Combine dry ingredients. Add to creamed misture alternately with apple cider, beginning and ending with flour mixure. Mix well after each addition. Stir in vanilla.

Pour batter into a well greased 10 inch tube (or bundt) pan. Bake at 325 degrees for one hour and fifty minutes or until cake tests done. Check after 1 hr 35 minutes. Cool in pan 10-15 minutes; remove and cool completely on a wire rack.

Can be glazed with a simple powdered sugar/milk glaze or eaten plain.