Bruce's White Fruitcake

By brenda-2

This is a dense pound cake with candied fruit, baked slow. Once cooled, you can keep it moist in a sealed container by placing a sliced apple or slice of fresh bread with the cake; change apple/bread everyfew days. Or you can slowly add your favorite alcohol to the cake and let it steep into it.
The recipe was given to my mother from a family friend, Mary Lou Emory.

Ingredients

• 1 pound butter
• 8 eggs
• 2 1/4 cups sugar
• 5 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp corn meal
• 2 cups candied fruit-pineapple, cherries
• 1 cup golden raisins
• 1/2 cup nuts

Details

Cooking time 120mins

Preparation

Step 1

Combine cornmeal and fruit. Let stand 1 hour.
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Add flour and baking powder. Stir in fruit and nuts. Bake in greased tube pan at 275 degree oven for 2 hours. DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN AT ANY TIME!!