Fruit Cake - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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4 c. plain flour, sifted
3 c. sugar
3 sticks margarine (at room temperature)
7 eggs
3 c. pecans, chopped
1/2 lb. candied cherries
1/2 lb. box white raisins
3 tsp. vanilla flavoring
2 tsp. lemon flavoring
Preparation
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Use 1/2 cup flour to coat raisins, cherries and pecans.
You can add some cooked figs also if desired.
Grease and flour a large tube pan.
Turn oven to 300\u00b0.
Cream sugar and margarine good.
Add flavorings and eggs, one at a time.
Add flour, one cup at a time, mixing well.
Then take spatula and fold in raisins, cherries and pecans that have been coated in flour.
Bake in oven at 300\u00b0 for 2 hours.
(Place pecan halves around on mixture before placing pan in oven.)
Cool cake 15 to 20 minutes before removing from pan.
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