White Fruit Cake - Old Kentucky Recipe - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 lb. butter
1 lb. white sugar
1 lb. flour
12 egg whites
1 tsp. soda
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1/4 lb. candied pineapple
1/4 lb. candied cherries
3/4 c. Angel Flake coconut
1/2 lb. citron, cut in strips
2 lb. almonds, blanched and cut

Preparation

Sift flour and measure.
Remove one cup of flour and sift it over fruit and nut mixture.
Set aside.
Sift together remaining flour, soda and cream of tartar.
Cream butter and sugar; add flour mixture, then the fruits and nuts.
Separate the eggs, beating the egg whites until stiff.
Fold the egg whites into the rest of cake batter.
Bake at 275\u00b0 for 2 1/2 hours in three 10 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 2 1/2-inch deep pans.
Lightly grease pans, bottom and sides, then cut a piece of wax paper to fit bottom of pans and grease it also.