More Nuts than Fruit

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb red & green cherries
• 1/2 lb chopped dates
• 5 C. Chopped Pecans
• 2 C. Walnuts
• 2 C. Brazil Nuts
• 1 1/2 Cups plain flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder & salt
• 3/4 teaspoon Cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon Allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon Cloves
• 1 stick butter
• 1 C. sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla

Directions

1. Roll Nuts & Cherries in flour
2. Cream 1 stick butter, 1 C. sugar, 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla & flour together real good.
3. Fold Nuts & Cherries in with hands as this will be stiff
4. Put in tube cake pan that has been greased good & lined with a piece of two broad paper greased good.
5. Bake 1 1/2 hrs. at 250°
6. Put a pan of water in the oven under cake pan.

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