Italian Cream Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 stick butter or margarine
1/2 c. Crisco shortening
2 c. sugar
5 egg yolks
1 tsp. soda
2 c. plain flour
1 c. buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. coconut
1 c. pecans (chopped)
5 egg whites, stiffly beaten

Preparation

Cream butter, sugar and Crisco.
Beat until smooth; add egg yolks, beat well, combining flour and soda.
Add alternately with buttermilk.
Add vanilla, coconut and pecans.
Fold in egg whites. Bake at 350\u00b0 for 25 minutes.
Cool.
Makes 3 layers.