3 c. sugar
1 c. butter
1/2 c. Crisco (solid)
5 egg
3 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. mace
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. sweet milk

Halfway through mixing cake, turn oven to 200 degrees. Cream butter, Crisco and sugar; add eggs, mixing well. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and mace. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk and vanilla beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Bake in a well-greased and floured 10 inch tube pan. When cake goes in the oven turn oven temperature to 325 degrees for 1 1/2 hours.