Nana's lozenge cake

How many of you have those precious recipes that have been passed down through the generations and now they sit in your recipe box or somewhere stuck inside a cookbook. Sometimes we don't need to even look at these recipes to cook or bake them, we have them memorized. Or maybe there is no recipe for something that you make because your grand mother or great grandmother measured in "a pinch" or "till it looks right".
Tonight after supper has been cleaned up, I am making one of these such recipes. It has been passed down from my great grandmother (aka Nana) and it is called lozenge cake made from those little pink lozenge candies

Do these little candies look familiar? 15 of them have been setting in one cup of milk dissolving over night in my fridge.

Here is the rest of the recipe:

Nana's Pink Lozenges Cake

15 Pink lozenges                                  1 cup of milk

2 eggs                                                  1 1/2 cups of milk

1/2 cup of shortening                            2 cups flour

 1 1/2 tsp vanilla

1. dissolve/soak 15 pink lozenges in 1 cup of milk overnight (you might have some little slivers left so pick them out before you mix your batter together)
2. Mix together all the rest of the ingredients
3. Add dissolved lozenge milk
4. Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 mins

I am making them for my "kids" as their Easter snack on Thursday, so I wanted to icing them and put a little jelly bean on top to go with :-)

now just need to icing the other 22