White Fruit Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

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

Preparation

Cut fruit and nuts; dredge in flour.
Cream butter and sugar. Add well-beaten eggs and blend well.
Sift flour and baking powder together.
Fold into butter and egg mixture.
Add extracts and mix well.
Add fruit and nuts and blend well.
Grease 10-inch tube pan.
Line with brown paper and grease again.
Pour batter into pan.
Place in cold oven and bake at 250\u00b0 for 2 hours.
Cool in pan on cake rack.
Can be baked in 2 (5 x 3-inch) pans for 2 1/2 hours.