Old Fashioned Nut Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

8 c. chopped walnuts or pecans
3 1/2 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 c. milk
1/4 c. rum or brandy
1 1/2 c. butter, softened
2 c. sugar
6 eggs
confectioners sugar

Preparation

Lightly grease bottom and sides of 10-inch tube pan.
Line with brown paper; grease paper.
Turn nuts into large bowl.
On waxed paper sift flour with baking powder and salt; set aside. Combine milk with rum.
Preheat oven to 275\u00b0.
In large bowl of electric mixer at medium speed, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time; beat well after each egg until light and fluffy.
At low speed beat in flour mixture, alternately with milk mixture, begin and end with flour.
Pour batter over nuts; mix well with large spoon.
Turn batter into pan, spreading evenly.
Bake 2 1/2 hours. Let cake cool on wire rack 30 minutes.
Turn out on rack, gently remove paper.
Let cool completely.
Sprinkle with confectioners sugar.
Cut cake into very thin slices.