Italian Cream Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 stick butter
1/2 c. shortening
2 c. sugar
5 egg yolks
1 c. buttermilk
1 tsp. soda
2 c. flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. chopped pecans
1 small can coconut
5 beaten egg whites

Preparation

Cream together butter, shortening and sugar. Add egg yolks, one at a time.
Mix together 1 cup buttermilk with 1 teaspoon soda.
Add flour and mix alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour.
Fold in vanilla, pecans, coconut and beaten egg
whites.
Bake in 3 round 8-inch pans at 325\u00b0 for 40 minutes.