Maraschino Cherry Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (16 ounce) bottle red maraschino cherries
4 cups sifted flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 cups margarine
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup milk

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325.
Drain cherries & dry thoroughly.
Sift flour, baking powder.
Coat cherries with a little of this dry mixture.
Beat butter& sugar together until light& fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
add flavouring.
Stir in remaining flour mixture alternately with milk.
When smoothly blended add the cherries stirring them in.
scrape into a well greased tube pan.
Bake about 2 hours or until cake is set.
Test with toothpick.
cool before removing from pan.