Nana's Yummy White Frosting

3/4 cup milk, HOT!
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 tsp vanilla

- cream butter, shortening, and sugar
- add very, very warm milk slowly and continue mixing with hand held or stand mixer.
- add vanilla

You are going to think that something went horribly wrong. The frosting will look like it just won't come together. Just when you are ready to give up it will start to look like frosting and you will be able to see the tell tale lines of thickening frosting.

Frosting is done when it is well beaten and fluffy

I crave this frosting on a devil's food cake. My Dad and I used to fight over the last piece and not in the usual way - we'd keep cutting the last piece of cake in half to give the other one the official last piece.