WALDORF RED CAKE
1/2 C Crisco
1 1/2 C sugar
2 eggs
2 oz (4 bottles) red food coloring
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp cocoa
1 tsp salt
1 C buttermilk
2 1/4 C cake flour
1 tsp vinegar
1 t soda
Cream crisco, sugar & eggs; make paste w/coloring and cocoa; then add salt, buttermilk and mix slowly. Add flour and vanilla; add vinegar and soda last. DO NOT BEAT AFTER FLOUR, just blend. Bake in 9" pans 30 min. at 350.
ICING
Cook 1 C milk and 6 TB flour until very thick, then cool. Cream 1 C butter, 1 C sugar and 1 tsp vanilla. Add flour mixture and beat until smooth at high speed. When cake is cool, slice each layer horizontally in two (will have 4 layers). Ice between layers and sides. THIS IS A LARGE CAKE