White Fruit Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 tsp. baking powder
5 large eggs
1/2 lb. butter
1 c. sugar
2 c. cake flour
1 lb. cryst. cherries
1 lb. cryst. pineapple
1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
4 c. nut meats (pecans)

Preparation

Cream
butter and sugar.
Add well
beaten
eggs.
Chop nuts and fruit.
Mix with part flour and baking powder and add to butter and egg mixture.
Grease pan and
line
with
brown paper. Grease paper only on bottom of pan.
Put
in cold oven and bake for 30 minutes at 300\u00b0, then turn to
250\u00b0
for 2 1/2 hours. Makes a 5 pound cake.
For a more moist
cake,
add
1 cup jelly.