Old-Fashioned Nut Loaf - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2/3 c. butter
3 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
1/3 c. milk
1 c. finely chopped pecans
1 c. sugar
2 c. sifted cake flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Cream the butter, gradually adding sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Repeat sifting and add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour.
Mix just until blended.
Gently stir in pecans and vanilla.
Spoon batter into greased loaf pan. Bake at 350\u00b0 for 1 hour or until cake tests done.
Cool in pan 10 minutes.
Remove from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.