Nut Cake

Nut Cake

Cook Time 1 hour

Ingredients
  

  • 3 cup cake flour or 3 cups all purpose flour minus 6 tablespoons
  • 1 3/4 cup sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tsp double acting baking powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup chopped nuts dredged in flour
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup Crisco or Spry

Method
 

  1. 1. Sift all dry ingredients in large bowl.
  2. 2. Drop in Spry, milk, vanilla and eggs.
  3. 3. Beat mixture 300 brisk strokes then add other egg and beat 300 more strokes – use mixing machine.
  4. 4. Last – fold in nuts.
  5. 5. Grease and flour pan.
  6. 6. Bake in oven 375 degrees for 1 hour.
  7. 7. Let cool in pan or rack for 15 minutes before removing from pan.

Notes

Recipe calls for dredging nuts in flour before folding in. Crisco and Spry are solid vegetable shortenings.

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