MAPLE NUT CAKE
- ⅓ cup shortening
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup milk
- 1½ cups flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
- 1 cup chopped nuts—preferably pecans
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream shortening, add sugar slowly and yolks of eggs and milk and beat well; add flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together; add nuts and fold in beaten whites of eggs; add flavoring. Bake in well greased loaf pan in moderate oven 35 to 45 minutes. Cover with maple icing [page 17] and while still soft sprinkle with chopped nuts.