Silver Nut Cake

1 cupful sugar
1/2 cupful Crisco
4 whites of eggs
1/2 teaspoonful vanilla extract
2 cupfuls flour
1/2 teaspoonful salt
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 cupful chopped pecans or English walnut meats
1/2 cupful milk

Cream Crisco and sugar. Sift dry ingredients and add to Crisco mixture, alternating with the milk; add nuts and vanilla extract. Beat egg whites to stiff froth and fold in at last. Turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake in moderate oven thirty-five minutes.

Sufficient for one small cake.