Fruit-Nut Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 1/2 c. sugar
8 eggs
2 c. pecans
4 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
1 lb. oleo
1 tsp. coconut flavoring
2 tsp. butter flavoring
2 to 4 (6 oz.) jars maraschino cherries

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar.
Add eggs, alternately with small amounts of flour until all flour and eggs have been used.
Fold in nuts.
Pour into 2 loaf pans that have been lightly greased and floured.
Stuff cherries down into batter one at a time until you have as many cherries in as you might want.
The cherry juice is not used.
Bake at 300\u00b0 for 1 hour.