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Fruit Cake ~ ~ LaWana via Brink Potter Recipe

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This recipe for Fruit Cake ~ ~ LaWana via Brink Potter, by , is from Faith, Family, and Friends Cookbook, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We help families or individuals create heirloom cookbook treasures.
Contributor:  
Contributor:  
Rebecca Pace
Added: Monday, October 6, 2008
Category:
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1 Cup White Sugar
2 cubes butter
1 pkg Fruitcake Mix
1 lb. raisins
1 lb. currants
1 lb. gumdrops - cut in pieces
1 lb. walnuts & pecans
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups fruit juice
1 bottle marachino Cherries cut in fourths
1 qt flour
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp. Nutmeg
1/2 tsp. Allspice
1/2 tsp Cloves
Directions:
Directions:
Mix sugars, butter, eggs and fruit juice together. In another pan mix flour, soda & spices. Add to flour mixture & coat well: raisins, currants, gumdrops, nuts, cherries. Mix all together. Place in linve loaf tins. Bake at 300 degrees for 1/2 hour then 250 degrees for 1 1/2 hour. Cook, then soak in maraschio cherry juice ....see directions in this cook book under Fruit Cake Juice.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
President Ezra Taft Benson said that people who are "captained by Christ will be consumed in Christ...Enter their homes, and the pictures on their walls, the book on their shelves, the music in the air, their words and acts reveal them as Christians."

 

 

 

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