White Fruit Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. butter
1 lb. sugar
1 lb. flour
1 lb. candied cherries (each red and green)
2 oz. lemon extract
6 eggs
1 lb. chopped pecans
1 lb. candied pineapple, chopped or cut small

Preparation

Cream sugar and butter.
Beat in egg yolks.
Mix fruit and nuts.
Sprinkle half of flour over fruits and nuts (mix).
Mix with butter and sugar.
Add rest of flour.
Beat egg whites separately and fold into cake mixture.
Add extract.
Bake in greased and wax paper lined pan.
I use my hands to mix all of this after I cream butter, sugar and eggs.
Makes 2 large or 3 small loaf pans.
Bake at 300\u00b0 for 2 hours or until toothpick comes out clean.