Recipe - Brownstone Cake

5 Eggs; separated
2 One fourth cup Sugar
1 cup Shortening
2 teaspoon Soda
2 One half cup Cake flour
1 cup Buttermilk
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 pn Salt
4 teaspoon Cocoa

Cream sugar, shortening and vanilla; add egg yolks and beat until smooth.
Sift all dry ingredients together 3 times. Add dry ingredients alternately
with buttermilk to the creamed mixture. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.
Bake in greased and floured layer pans (3) for 20 to 25 minutes in a 325
degree oven. Frost with Seven Minute or Cream Cheese Frosting (see
recipes).

From A Taste of Louisiana. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.