Hickory Nut Cake
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening( I use Crisco)
2 cups sugar
3 cups cake flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 t. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
6 egg whites
1/2 cup hickory nuts
1 1/3 cups milk

Sift dry ingredients. Cream shortenings and sugar till light and fluffy. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk. Add vanilla and beat about 3 minutes. Beat egg whites till stiff. Fold nuts and whites into batter. Thoroughly creaming and mixing other ingredients to blend well gives best results.
Bake in 3 -8inch pans at 350 for 25 minutes

Icing
l cup oleo
1/2 cup water
2 lbs x x x x sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 or 3 drops of butter flavor if you have it.

Beat till light and fluffy.
Genie

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