Old Fashioned Kentucky Nut Cake

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 2/3 cup shortening
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/3 cups chopped walnuts

Recipe

• sift together flour, salt, and baking powder.
• in a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until fluffy. beat in eggs one at a time. combine milk and vanilla, and add alternately with flour mixture to egg mixture. fold in nuts. pour into a greased and floured 9 x 13 inch cake pan.
• bake at 350 degrees f (175 degrees c) for 35 to 40 minutes. cool on a wire rack.