Cakes: Mr. Harvey's White Fruit Cake

By JoFClark

Ingredients

• 4 cups pecans
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1 lb candied cheerries
• 1 lb candied pineapple
• 1/2 lb butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 5 large eggs
• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 1/2 t baking powder
• 2 oz vanilla extract
• 2 oz lemon extract

Preparation

Step 1

Chop fruit and nuts (medium) and mix with 1/4 cup flour
Cream butter and sugar.
Add well beaten eggs and blend.
Sift flour and baking powder.
Fold into egg mixture.
Mix in extracts.
Add fruit mixture.
Grease a 10 inch tube pan or 2 loaf pans.
Line with foil or wax paper.
Grease again.
Place in a cold oven and bake at 350 degrees for 3 hours or 2 hour if in loaf pans.
Cool in pans.
Substitute 3/4 dried apricots soaked, cooked, saving 1/4 cup of the juice for the pecans.
Don't dredge in flour.
Check cake 1 hour before the end of baking.
Cake should be moist and sticky.
Saturate cloth with rum or apple cider if desired.

YUMMY!