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Cherry Nut Cake Recipe

	Pat2me / All my dishes 5 months, 2 weeks ago A 1930's recipe from Mom's Kansas cookbook I checked other cakes of this type from this book and have made a note about the salt, according to other recipes, it should be about a tsp. Prep:20m Cook:60m Servings:16	Pat2me
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Ingredients

1/2 Cup shortening

1 Cup sugar

1/2 cup milk

2 Cups of cake flour

2 1/2 tsp baking powder

2 1/2 tsp salt (OK, this seems like about 1 1/2 tsps too much)

1/2 C chopped nuts

1/2 C Maraschino cherries, cut fine

1 tsp vanilla

4 Tbl cherry juice

3 egg whites, beaten stiff

Directions

Cream shortening and sugar until fluffy

Add milk alternately with the sifted dry ingredients

Add the nuts, cherries, vanilla and cherry juice

Fold in egg whites

Bake in a greased 10" tube pan for 45 to 60 minutes

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Comments

henrie 5 months, 2 weeks ago said:
Sounds good, bookmarking this one to try. Great post - thank you.

bakermel 5 months, 2 weeks ago said:
We love cherry cake in our household---I'll have to make this for my hubby soon! Thanks for sharing your recipe----how cool, it came from a Kansas cookbook----yea! :) Hope you have a great eve, Pat! :)
~Melinda

momo_55grandma 1 month, 1 week ago said:
Sounds wonderful thanks

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