WHITE FRUIT CAKE Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups butter (3 sticks)
2 cups sugar
6 eggs - 1 at a time
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup whiskey
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 pound pecans
1 pound candied cherries
1 pound candied pineapple
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Directions:Cut fruit into large pieces. Chop pecans.
Before adding baking powder, sift 1/2 cup flour over the fruit. (Mama always sifted the remaining flour and baking powder together.)
Cream butter in large mixing bowl. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour and whiskey. Beat well. Add vanilla. Add fruit and pecan mixture to batter. Spoon batter into waxed paper lined and greased 10” tube pan. Place large pan of boiling water on lower oven rack. Bake at 275 degrees for 3 hours to three hours fifteen minutes or until it tests done. Cool completely in pans.
Put in tight fitting cake tin and mop frequently with wine. |
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Notes: Mama and Daddy usually filled the tube pan only half full and made several small cakes baked in loafs.
Clyde and P. J. always made these every year.
After Mama died, P. J. and I made this every year until he was no longer able to do so; then I made it until he died.
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