Blackberry Cake

1. Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.
2. Cream the shortening, eggs, and sugar with a mixer at medium speed. Add the blackberries.
3. Mix the buttermilk and baking soda in a small bowl. Combine the flour, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves in a large bowl; mix well.
4. Add the buttermilk mixture and the dry ingredients alternately to the creamed mixture; beat well. Pour into the prepared cake pans.
5. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out almost clean. Do not overbake. Cool on a wire rack.

– Elsie Cumpton, Worthington, Ky.