3 c. sugar
2 sticks butter
5 tbsp. Crisco
5 eggs
3 c. Swans Down cake flour
1 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla or lemon extract or 1 c. black walnuts, rolled in flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder

Cream butter, sugar and Crisco. Add all eggs, slightly beaten. Add flour and milk (starting and ending with flour). Add flavoring and baking powder.

Bake at 325°F for 1 1/2 hours in tube cake pan.