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       Title: VANILLA BUTTERNUT POUND CAKE
  Categories: Cakes
       Yield: 1 Servings
  
       3 c  Sugar
       3 c  All-purpose flour
     1/2 c  Vegetable shortening
       1 cn Evaporated milk; * see note
       2    Margarine; not butter
       6 lg Eggs; room temp
     1/4 ts Salt
       2 tb Vanilla extract
            Butternut flavoring
  
   * or use 2/3 cup evaporated milk and water to equal 1 cup. Cream
   shortening, margerine, sugar and salt. Add eggs one at a time beating well
   after each.  Add flour and milk alternately beginning and ending with
   flour. Fold in flavoring by hand. Bake in greased tube pan. Put cake in
   COLD oven then turn oven on to 325 degrees. Bake 1 hour 45 minutes. Do not
   open door while baking. Remove cake from pan immediately after removing it
   from oven.
   
   The best thing about this cake is that the outside is crunchy, and the
   inside is wonderfully moist!
     Debbie Nachman
  
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