White Fruit Cake

Directions

1. 1
   Cream butter and sugar.
2. 2
   Add eggs, one at a time.
3. 3
   Mix 3 1/2 cups flour with baking powder and add alternately with orange juice to butter.
4. 4
   Combine candied cherries and candied pineapple.
5. 5
   Sift remaining 1/2 cup flour over fruit that has been cut in large pieces.
6. 6
   Add vanilla, 3 or 4 cups pecans and fruit to batter.
7. 7
   Put in tube pan with greased paper bottom.
8. 8
   Bake 2 hours in slow oven. Yield:
9. 9
   5 pound cake.