Black Walnut Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 lb. butter
1/2 c. Crisco
3 c. sugar
5 eggs
5 tsp. rum flavoring
1 tsp. vanilla
3 c. cake flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 c. half and half cream
1 c. chopped black walnuts

Preparation

Cream butter and shortening well.
Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time.
Add flavoring and beat again.
Add dry ingredients alternately with cream; start with flour and end with flour.
Add walnuts which have been lightly floured.
Bake in greased and floured tube cake pan at 325\u00b0 for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Cool cake 10 minutes before removing from pan.