Old Fashioned Fruit Cake
- 1 lb. cake flour, sifted
- 2 tsp. allspice
- 1 lb. butter
- 1 lb. sugar
- 10 eggs
- 2 tsp. lemon juice
- 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 2 lb. pecans
- 1/2 lb. walnuts
- 1/2 lb. walnuts
- 2 lb. seedless raisins
- 1/2 lb. figs
- 2 pkg. pitted dates
- 1/2 lb. cherries
- 1/4 lb. citron
- 1/2 lb. candied pineapple
- 1/4 lb. orange or lemon peel
- Sift flour with spice. Cream butter until soft and smooth. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, lemon juice and vanilla extract, beating thoroughly. Add flour-spice mixture gradually. Chop all fruit and nuts. Roll or toss in part of the flour to coat them. Gradually add to cake batter. Turn into well-greased loaf pans or molds that have been lined with greased brown paper (may use buttered waxed paper or buttered parchment baking paper). Bake in slow oven (250u0b0) for 2 1/2 to 3 hours or until done.
cake flour, allspice, butter, sugar, eggs, lemon juice, vanilla, pecans, walnuts, walnuts, raisins, figs, dates, cherries, citron, candied pineapple, orange
Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=74728 (may not work)