Plain Cake...

Source:  Gladys Mixson (Handwritten in an old family cookbook.)



1/2 cup Shorting

3/4 cup Sugar

2 Eggs

1 1/2 cups of Flour

2 teaspoons B powder

1/2 cup milk

1/2 teaspoon flavoring



Cream the butter add suger gradually separate white & yoke of egg 

and Beat yoke until light and add to cream butter and sugar

Sift together remaining dry ingredients add this alternating with milk

beat thourghly

Flavor with Vanilla beat egg white till stiff and fold them into batter

Bake in moderate oven for about 45-min