Blackberry Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. each: cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and allspice
2 c. sugar
1 c. shortening
2 eggs
1 c. buttermilk
1 tsp. soda
1 c. blackberries

Preparation

Sift together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and allspice.
Cream sugar, shortening and eggs.
Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture; alternate with buttermilk into which soda has been stirred; mix well.
Add by hand, blackberries with small amount of juice from berries.
Bake in tube pan for 1 1/2 hours at 325\u00b0.
Ice with 7 minute icing.