Old Fashioned Fruit Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. cake flour, sifted
2 tsp. allspice
1 lb. butter
1 lb. sugar
10 eggs
2 tsp. lemon juice
2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
2 lb. pecans
1/2 lb. walnuts
1/2 lb. walnuts
2 lb. seedless raisins
1/2 lb. figs
2 pkg. pitted dates
1/2 lb. cherries
1/4 lb. citron
1/2 lb. candied pineapple
1/4 lb. orange or lemon peel

Preparation

Sift flour with spice. Cream butter until soft and smooth. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, lemon juice and vanilla extract, beating thoroughly. Add flour-spice mixture gradually. Chop all fruit and nuts. Roll or toss in part of the flour to coat them. Gradually add to cake batter. Turn into well-greased loaf pans or molds that have been lined with greased brown paper (may use buttered waxed paper or buttered parchment baking paper). Bake in slow oven (250\u00b0) for 2 1/2 to 3 hours or until done.