Emily's White Cake

Name: Emily's White Cake
Ingredients: 1/2 cup vegetable shortening; 1 1/2 cups sugar; 3 cups flour, all-purpose; 3 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 cup water; 1 teaspoon flavoring

7 ingredients

6 steps

Ingredients

1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 cups flour, all-purpose
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
1 teaspoon flavoring

Directions

1

Cream Crisco.
2

Add sugar slowly and cream together.
3

Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with the liquid.
4

Add flavoring, beat mixture thoroughly and last fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs.
5

Prepare layer-cake tins by greasing them with a mixture of Crisco and flour.
6

Pour in cake mixture; put in moderate oven, allow to rise for five minutes, increase heat to bake; at the end of fifteen minutes, reduce heat to allow cake to shrink from pan.