Abe Lincoln Favorite Nut Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. Butter
2 c. Sugar
1 c. Milk
3 c. Flour
2 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/4 tsp. Salt
6 Egg Whites
1 c. Hickory Nuts

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar until light and creamy.
Sift flour, baking powder,
and salt 3 times, then add to butter and sugar, vanilla with milk.
Then after you have this well beaten, add 1 cup of Hickory nuts chopped fine.
I usually put about half of the nuts in the blender and make them real fine; other half I chop. Last fold in beaten egg whites, beat egg whites till stand in peaks before you fold them in.
Bake in long pan or 3 - 8 inch pans at 350 degrees until it leaves the pans or until it springs back when touched in center.