Buttermilk Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup shortening (butter, margarine or soft shortening)
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup whole eggs (4-6 depending on size)
• 3 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 cup buttermilk

Method

1. 1

   Cream together shortening and sugar.

2. 2

   Add eggs and beat until light and fluffy.

3. 3

   Sift together flour, soda, and salt.

4. 4

   Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture, alternating with buttermilk.

5. 5

   Bake in greased tube pan at 325° for approx 1.5 hr or in loaf pans at 350° for 1 hr.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cook book (Relief Society, Houston, 1963) (1963) by Hardy, Joanne (Artist), page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1/2 tsp. salt — Add to other ingredients and mix 2 minutes at No. 1 speed--Add 1 cup mashed bananas (3~4), 1/4 cup sour milk or buttermilk, 1 tsp. vanilla-- Beat at No. 3 speed until well blended--Bake 30=35 min in greased, floured pan at 350° • Use either a loaf or angel food cake pan. 65 BUTTERMILK CAKE Elizabeth Starr A cake that needs no embellishment, it has a flavor all of its own. Cream together in mixer (or mixing bowl) as thoroughly as possible: 1 cup shortening (butter, margarine or soft shortening--a portion of the former, if not all, preferred for flavor), 3 cups sugar (right, this shows up only in the brown sugary crust--not too sweet a cake at all) — Then add and beat until mixture is light and fluffy--10 minutes --1 cup whole eggs (4-6 depending on size)--Meanwhile, sift together: 3 cups flour, first sifted, 1/2 tsp. soda, 1/2 tsoc salt (pinch if you are using butter) --Add dry sifted ingredients to creamed mixture--Alternate with 1 cup buttermilk

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