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Orange Layer Cake

1/2 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 2/3 cup milk 1 3/4 cups flour 3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Cream shortening; add sugar and yolks of eggs; cream well and add half the milk; add half the flour which has been sifted with the baking powder; mix in flavoring, milk and remainder of flour. Bake in two greased layer cake tins in moderate oven about 20 minutes. Spread between layers and on top the following orange filling and icing:

FILLING AND ICING whites of 2 eggs 1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar juice, rind and soft pulp of 1 orange Whip eggs to stiff froth; add sugar, a little at a time; whip in the pulp, juice and rind of orange.