3 c Sugar
1/2 c Shortening
1 c Butter
5 Eggs
3 c All-purpose flour
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
2 ts Cherry flavoring
1 c Milk
1/2 c Cherries in juice; chopped
Cream sugar, shortening and butter; add eggs, one at a time. Add flour,
baking powder, salt, and cherry flavoring alternately with milk. Beat until
creamy. Stir in cherries. Bake in greased tube pan at 325 degrees for 1
hour and then increase heat to 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
NOTES : Cherry flavoring has been hard to find. I substitute juice from
the marachino cherries. I also add one tablespoon of vanilla to the recipe.
~ John Setzler
Yields
24 Servings