Silver Nut Cake Recipe

Ingredients for Silver Nut Cake Recipe

• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup vegetable shortening
• 4 whites of eggs
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup chopped pecans or English walnut meats
• ½ cup milk

Instructions

1. Cream vegetable shortening and sugar.
2. Sift dry ingredients and add to vegetable shortening mixture, alternating with the milk; add nuts and vanilla extract.
3. Beat egg whites to stiff froth and fold in at last.
4. Turn into vegetable shorteninged and floured cake tin and bake in moderate oven 35 minutes.
5. Sufficient for one small cake.