Old Fashioned Kentucky Nut Cake

Ingredients

• 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

Directions

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.