Red Velvet Cake(Waldorf-Astoria Recipe) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 c. Crisco shortening
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
2 oz. red food coloring
2 Tbsp. cocoa
2 1/4 c. cake flour
1 c. buttermilk
1 Tbsp. vinegar
1 tsp. baking soda
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 tsp. salt

Preparation

Cream the Crisco and sugar; add eggs and beat well.
Mix cocoa in a large measuring cup with food coloring.
Fill 1 food coloring bottle almost full of water; pour from bottle to bottle in order to get all the coloring out of the bottles.
Add to the food coloring and cocoa mixture.
Add this to the Crisco, sugar and egg mixture.
Mix well and add vanilla.