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       Title: WALDORF RED CAKE
  Categories: Cakes
       Yield: 1 Servings
  
     1/2 c  Shortening (at least 1/2
   1 1/2 c  Sugar
       2    Eggs
       2 oz Red food coloring; (4 little
       1 ts Vanilla
       2 tb Cocoa
       1 ts Salt
       1 c  Buttermilk
   2 1/2 c  Cake flour; sifted
       1 ts Vinegar
       1 ts Baking soda
            -ICING (Best part of cake)
       5 tb Flour
       1 c  Milk
       1 c  Sugar
       1 ts Vanilla
       1 c  Butter; or margarine
  
   Prepare cake:  Cream shortening, sugar and eggs until fluffy. Make a paste
   with cocoa and red food coloring and add to shortening mixture. Add salt to
   sifted flour and sift again. Add flour alternately with buttermilk. Add
   vanilla.  Mix vinegar and soda and add last. DO NOT BEAT HARD just blend at
   a low speed.
   
   Bake in 2 greased and floured 9' cake pans for 30 minutes at 350.
   
   Prepare icing:  Cook flour and milk until thick. Cool. Cream sugar, butter
   and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add flour misture. DO NOT BEAT TOO LONG
   just blend on low speed. Frost cooled cake.
   
   Shirley in Cincy
  
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