Why this is called Cherry-O Cake is a mystery. Perhaps Mom forgot to copy the last ingredient, which was something like 1/2 cup dried cherries or 1 jar maraschino cherries, drained.
Cherry-O Cake
2 1/4 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup milk
1 Tbs grated lemon peel
1/4 tsp almond flavoring
2 eggs
Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Add shortening.
To the milk, add lemon peel and almond flavoring.
Pour 2/3 milk mixture into dry ingredients. Blend then beat 2 minutes.
Add rest of milk and the eggs. Beat 2 minutes more.
Pour into 2 cake pans.
Bake at 350 F for 25-30 minutes.
Blending shortening into dry ingredients for cake batter seems unnecessarily labor intensive to me. Maybe the recipe should say softened shortening? I found a similar recipe that uses softened butter instead of shortening and blended it in using an electric mixer. The butter sounds better to me than shortening. That recipe also included maraschino cherries. Given the high concentration of harmful additives in typical maraschino cherries, I'd opt for dried cherries or bordeaux cherries.
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