Favorite Christmas Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. sugar
1 c. butter
6 egg yolks
1 lb. sifted cake flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 c. whiskey or brandy (I use apricot)
1 lb. white raisins
1 lb. chopped pecans
6 egg whites, almost stiffly beaten
whiskey or brandy cheesecloth

Preparation

Cream together butter and sugar.
Beat in egg yolks.
Add dry ingredients, flour, salt and baking powder alternately with 1/2 cup whiskey.
Stir in white raisins and nuts.
Fold in beaten egg whites.
Turn into well-greased and sugared Bundt or angel food pan.
Bake in preheated 300\u00b0 oven for approximately 2 hours.
Cool, remove from pan.
Wrap cake in cheesecloth wet with additional whiskey.
Wrap in foil and store in tin, tightly covered.
Aging makes it better!