Gloria W. Parker

NOTE: This is only an excerpt. If you want the full recipe/story, you'll need to buy the book! ...can't give it all away... ;)

Aunt Addie's Banana/Coconut Cake

2/3 cup shortening                                                                               1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups sugar                                                                                          1 cup milk

3 cups sifted cake flour                                                                         1 teaspoon vanilla

3 teaspoons baking powder                                                                   5 egg whites, stiffly beaten

Cream shortening, add sugar graduatlly and cream until light and fluffy. Sift dry ingredients together three times and add alternately with milk and vanilla to creamed mixture. Fold in egg whites. <...>

Her daughter, Frances Jackson, is the one that keeps this recipe alive and well. She does an excellent job with this cake on those accasions when we have a girls' night out. <...> When we have gone too long without this cake, one of us will talk to her sister, Ruby, and make the request, "It is past time for the CAKE!"