Shelly's Recipe

125 YEAR OLD BLACK WALNUT POUND CAKE

Category: Cakes

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 lb butter
5 eggs
3 cup plain flour
3 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp black walnut flavoring
1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup chopped black walnuts
If you use cake flour, use 2 tbsp more per cup.

Grease and flour a tube cake pan. Cream butter and shortening. Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well. Add flavoring and beat well. Mix 1/4 cup of flour with nuts. Sift remaining flour with baking powder and add alternately with milk, starting and ending with flour. Fold in floured nuts. DO NOT BEAT.

It is important not to prehheat oven. Put the cake in a cold oven and bake in for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until done, at 325. Top with Seven Minute Frosting, if desired.