Cold Oven Butternut Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sticks butter
1/2 c. Crisco
3 c. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
5 eggs
3 c. flour
1 c. milk
1 c. chopped nuts
1 jar maraschino cherries, cut in half and well drained
1 Tbsp. plus 1 tsp. vanilla butternut flavoring

Preparation

Cream butter, shortening, sugar and salt.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well.
Add flour and milk alternately, ending with flour.
Fold in flavoring, cherries and nuts.
Grease a tube pan (large).
Start in cold oven and do not open oven door until done. Bake at 325\u00b0 for 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Remove from pan soon after taking from oven and cool on wire rack (inverted).