Fruit Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 box raisins (dates, if desired)
5 Tbsp. shortening
2 c. sugar
2 c. boiling water
3 c. flour
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cloves

Preparation

Mix the first 4 ingredients in a pan and simmer for 20 minutes. Cool.
Preheat oven to 325\u00b0.
Mix the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and cloves.
Mix all together.
Add nuts and red and green maraschino cherries. Grease and flour angel food cake pan. Bake for 1 1/2 hours at 325\u00b0.