Pear Preserves Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. butter
2 1/2 c. sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp. soda
3 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. each: allspice, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg
1 c. buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. pear preserves
1 c. chopped pecans

Preparation

Cream butter, sugar and eggs together, adding eggs, one at a time.
Mix soda, flour, allspice, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg together.
Add buttermilk and flour mixture alternately to butter mixture.
Add vanilla, pear preserves and pecans.
Bake in greased and floured tube or Bundt pan in 300\u00b0 oven for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Can substitute apricot preserves for pear preserves. Yield:
12 servings.