Best Two-Egg Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk, plus
2 tablespoons milk

Preparation

Stir shortening to soften.
Gradually add sugar, and cream together until light and fluffy.
Add vanilla.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each.
Sift flour, baking powder, salt together 3 times, add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, a little at a time.
Beat after each addition till smooth.
Bake in 2 paper-lined 9x1 1/2-inch round pans in moderate overn (375\u00b0) about 25 minutes.