Fruit Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 c. butter
    2 c. sugar
    2 c. flour
    1 tsp. soda
    1 tsp. baking powder
    5 eggs
    2 c. pecans
    1/2 box raisins
    1 tsp. cloves
    1 tsp. allspice
    1 tsp. cinnamon
    1/2 lb. candied green pineapple
    1/2 lb. candied red pineapple
    1/2 lb. mixed fruit cake mix
    1/2 pt. fig preserves, drained
    1/2 pt. pear preserves, drained
    1/2 lb. candied cherries
    1 (8 oz.) pkg. dates
Preparation
    Cream butter and sugar real well.
    Add eggs, one at a time, beating well.
    Combine flour and spices; mix together, then add to the butter mixture.
    Add this to all the fruit, nuts and preserves that have been chopped.
    Line a tube cake pan with brown paper; grease the paper with cooking oil.
    Add the cake to this pan; cover with wax paper and tie the paper down with a string.
    Put the rack in the pressure cooker that has about 3 cups of water in the bottom of the cooker.
    Cook on 10 pounds pressure for 45 minutes.

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