Geranium Pound Cake

1 cup butter softened
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 t. baking powder
1 cup milk
1 t. vanilla extract

Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour and baking powder; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in vanilla.

Well-grease a 10-inch tube pan; pour batter into pan. Bake at 350 (375) degrees for 1 hour or until cake tests done. Cool in pan 15 minutes; remove from pan, and let cool completely. Sift powdered sugar over top of cake. Yield: one 10-inch cake.