Betty'S White Fruit Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. sugar
1 lb. margarine (2 sticks butter and 2 sticks margarine)
1 lb. plain flour (reserve 1 c. for fruit)
10 eggs
1 tsp. almond extract
1 tsp. lemon
1/4 tsp. black walnut extract
1 lb. cherries
1 lb. pineapple
1 lb. dates
1 box seedless raisins
1 to 2 lb. nuts

Preparation

Cream butters and sugar well.
Add eggs one at a time alternately with flour.
Dredge fruit in about 1 cup of the flour and add to creamed mixture.
Cook in 3 loaf pans (9 1/4 x 5 1/4 x 2 3/4-inch), greased and lined with brown paper and greased inside before mix is added to pan.
Bake at 275\u00b0 for 1 hour and 45 minutes (sometimes takes 2 hours).
Cook in tin pans set in pan of water while baking to add moisture.