Rum cake #03

12 Servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
1cupShortening
4Eggs
2cupsSugar
3cupsFlour
½teaspoonSoda
½teaspoonSalt
½teaspoonBaking powder
1cupButtermilk
2teaspoonsRum extract
1Bottle (small) cherries
1cupPecans; chopped
2Sticks butter
1cupSugar
2tablespoonsRum extract
1tablespoonVanilla

Directions

GLAZE

CAKE: Cream shortening, sugar & eggs. Sift flour, salt & baking powder together & add to creamed mixture alternating with buttermilk to which soda has been added. Mix a small amount of flour with cherries & nuts & add to above mixture. Add extract. Bake in greased & floured tube pan at 325 for 60 minutes. GLAZE: Combine butter & sugar. Boil for 10 minutes & add rum extract & vanilla. Pour over hot cake.

LILLIAN FRANK

BLYTHEVILLE, AR

From <Simply Southern>, the Desoto School Mothers' Assn, Helena-West Helena, AR 72390. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .