Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup Crisco
• 1 lb light brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar
• 5 large eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 3 cups plain flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 cup pecans, chopped
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/2 cup pecans, chopped

Instructions

1. Important: All ingredients must be at room temperature.

2. Mix butter and Crisco.

3. Add brown sugar, a little at a time, and beat well.

4. Add white sugar and beat until fluffy.

5. Add eggs one at a time.

6. Add vanilla.

7. Sift flour, salt and baking powder together.

8. Add flour mixture alternately with milk. Fold in pecans.

9. Pour into a greased tube cake pan.

10. Bake at 325F for 1 1/2 hours.

11. When cake comes out of oven, begin making frosting. (Frosting will harden if made first.)

12. While cake is warm, pour frosting over cake.

13. Frosting: Combine butter, brown sugar and milk in saucepan and cook 2 1/2 minutes after coming to a boil.

14. Remove from heat.

15. Add pecans and pour immediately over warm cake.