Red Velvet Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 c. Crisco
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 oz. red food coloring
2 eggs
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cocoa
1 tsp. salt
1 c. buttermilk (1 c. milk plus 1 1/4 tsp. vinegar)
2 1/4 c. plain flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. vinegar

Preparation

Cream sugar, Crisco and eggs.
Make paste of cocoa and coloring; add to mixture.
Add salt to flour and sift.
Add this, buttermilk and vanilla.
Beat.
Put soda in vinegar.
Lightly fold in (this foams up).
Bake in 3 layers at 350\u00b0 for 25 to 30 minutes.
Cool, icing with French Creme Icing.