Italian Cream Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 c. Crisco
1 stick butter
2 c. sugar
5 egg yolks (save whites)
2 c. flour
1 tsp. soda
1 c. buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 can coconut
1 c. chopped pecans

Preparation

Cream shortening, butter and sugar together.
Add egg yolks, one at a time.
Sift flour and soda together and add alternately with buttermilk.
Add vanilla, coconut and pecans.
Fold beaten egg whites into mixture.
Bake at 350\u00b0 until done (about 1 hour) in a tube pan.