Buttermilk Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. sugar
3/4 c. shortening
3 eggs
2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. soda
1/8 tsp. salt
1 c. buttermilk
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 Tbsp. lemon extract

Preparation

Cream together sugar and shortening.
Beat eggs in one at a time.
Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and soda.
Blend into creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk (flour in 4 parts, milk 3) and vanilla and lemon extract.
Bake in greased and floured tube pan at 350\u00b0 for 1 hour.
This cake is much better, more moist and lasts indefinitely if you keep it covered.
When you remove from pan, put on cake plate, wrap immediately in foil while hot.