Best-Ever Fruitcake

Name: Best-Ever Fruitcake
Ingredients: 1/2 lb. margarine; 2 c. sugar; 6 eggs; 2 1/2 c. flour; 3/4 c. whiskey; 2 tsp.(rounded) nutmeg; 1 pinch salt; 2 tsp. Baking powder; 1/4 tsp soda; 1 lb. chopped walnuts; 1/2 lb. fruitcake cherries; 1/2 lb. fruitcake pineapple

12 ingredients

9 steps

Ingredients

1/2 lb. margarine
2 c. sugar
6 eggs
2 1/2 c. flour
3/4 c. whiskey
2 tsp.(rounded) nutmeg
1 pinch salt
2 tsp. Baking powder
1/4 tsp soda
1 lb. chopped walnuts
1/2 lb. fruitcake cherries
1/2 lb. fruitcake pineapple

Directions

1

Cream margarine and sugar.
2

Put dry ingredients in sifter. Alternately add an egg at a time, with part of the sifted dry ingredients, till all is combined, then add the wiskey.
3

Chop the cherries and pineapple (not too small) and rub a little flour on them so they don't float to the top.
4

Add the fruit and nuts.
5

Put into a greased tube pan.
6

Bake at 250° for 2 hours.
7

Cool completely before removing from pan.
8

Wrap well.
9

Keeps for weeks.