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Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Light Christmas Cake

1 lb butter
2 cups white sugar
2 lbs bleached raisins
3 lbs candy pineapple
1/2 lb mixed peel
1 lb blanched almonds {1/2 will do}
1 lb cherries, green & red mixed
1 tsp almond flavoring
Juice & rind of 1 lemon & 1 orange
4 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder {mix in flour}
3/4 cup pineapple juice
10 eggs, add whites last
cook 2 1/2 hrs at 275

Method:
Mix fruit the night before & put juice & lemon & orange into that.
Cream butter.  Add 2 cups sugar - cream real well. Egg yolks into butter & sugar mixture.  1 tsp almond flavoring.
1/2 tsp baking poder in with flour.  Add half to fruit, be sure well coated with flour.  Flour left put into first part.  Add fruit mixture.  Add whites of eggs well beaten last.