Fruit Cake

9 ingredients
18 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. butter
  • 3 c. sugar (save 1/2 c.)
  • 3 c. all-purpose flour (save 1/3 c.)
  • 8 eggs, separated
  • 1 lb. chopped nuts
  • 1 lb. chopped candied cherries
  • 1 lb. chopped candied pineapple
  • 1/2 tsp. mace
  • 1/3 c. whiskey

Directions

  1. 1
    Beat
  2. 2
    butter and sugar until smooth.
  3. 3
    Beat in egg yolks. Mix mace
  4. 4
    with flour and add flour, whiskey, alternately.
  5. 5
    Mix nuts and
  6. 6
    fruit
  7. 7
    in
  8. 8
    1/3 cup flour then add to other mix.
  9. 9
    Beat egg whites stiff;
  10. 10
    add
  11. 11
    1/2
  12. 12
    cup sugar.
  13. 13
    Fold into cake batter. Bake in tube
  14. 14
    pan
  15. 15
    at
  16. 16
    325°
  17. 17
    for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours.
  18. 18
    Makes 2 tube cakes.

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