Italian Cream Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 stick butter
1/2 c. Crisco
2 c. sugar
5 eggs, separated
1 c. chopped pecans
2 c. flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. flaked coconut
1 c. buttermilk

Preparation

Cream butter and Crisco.
Add sugar.
Add egg yolks, 1 at a time.
Combine flour and soda, alternating with buttermilk.
Stir in vanilla.
Add coconut and pecans.
Fold in by hand the beaten egg whites.
Pour into three or four 9-inch cake pans, greased and floured.
Bake at 350\u00b0 for 20 to 25 minutes.