Holiday Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. butter or margarine
2 c. sugar
1 Tbsp. vanilla
9 eggs
1/2 c. chopped candied cherries
4 1/4 c. sifted flour
1 tsp. salt
1/2 c. chopped nuts

Preparation

Cream butter until soft and fluffy.
Add sugar gradually beating thoroughly.
Add vanilla.
Add
eggs,
one
at
a time, beating well after each egg
is
added.
Sprinkle
cherries and nuts with 1/4 cup of the flour.
Sift remaining flour with salt and fold 1/2 cup at a time into the creamed mixture mixing only until smooth.
Fold in cherries and nuts with the last addition of flour. Bake in greased and
floured
10-inch
tube pan or in two loaf pans in a slow oven (300\u00b0
to
325\u00b0) for 1 hour and 15 minutes.