Best Fruit Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 large eggs
1/2 lb. butter
1 c. white sugar
1 3/4 c. flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 lb. candied cherries
1 lb. candied pineapple
4 c. pecans
1/2 oz. vanilla extract
1/2 oz. lemon extract

Preparation

Cream butter; add sugar.
Cream well until fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a
time;
mix well.\tSift flour and baking powder together. Chop nuts\tand fruit and mix with some flour.
Fold in flour mixture
with
butter mixture.
Add vanilla and lemon extracts; mix
well.\tFold
in
nuts\tand
fruit.
Pour
into greased, paper-lined tube
cake
pan.
Place
in cold oven and bake at 250\u00b0 for 3 hours or until done.