Marion Reed's Open Fruit Cake

• 1 12 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 12 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons butter or 6 tablespoons margarine
• 1 beaten egg
• 3 tablespoons water
• apples (Fresh Fruit of your choice) or peaches (Fresh Fruit of your choice) or pears (Fresh Fruit of your choice) or plums (Fresh Fruit of your choice) or apricot (Fresh Fruit of your choice)
• cinnamon sugar (for sprinkling on top)
• butter (for dotting on top)

1. Sift the flour with the sugar, baking powder and salt.
2. Add 6 Tablespoons of the butter or margarine and cut in.
3. Add the egg beaten with 3 tablespoons of water (you are beating the egg and water together) mix to form a dough.
4. Pat the dough with your hands into greased baking pan; for a cakelike crust use a 13 x 9 inch pan; for a cookielike crust, pat into a cookie sheet that has a small rim (some cookie sheets today are totaly flat not sure they would work, the older cookie sheets had a 1/4 inch rim all the way around).
5. Slice fruit in half moon shape and make slightly overlapping rows until pan is full.
6. The rows will look like this (((((((((((((.
7. Sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar (I usually make my own, just mix white sugar with cinnamon to taste) and dot with butter.
8. Bake at 375 degrees F for 40 minutes or until fruit is done.

flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, butter, egg, water, apples, cinnamon sugar, butter

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/marion-reeds-open-fruit-cake-102395 (may not work)