The Farmer Family Cookbook

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This was Jack's favorite!! A Christmas could not go by without making it. I found this recipe when I was a bride, so it has been around for many years. Jack liked it because it was so full of the candied fruit.

Ingredients

• 1.750.0729166666667 lbs candied fruit
• 20.0833333333333 cups coarsely chopped walnuts
• .50.0208333333333 lb chopped dates
• 1.50.0625 cups raisens
• .250.0104166666667 lb coconut
• .50.0208333333333 lb margarine
• .50.0208333333333 cup sugar
• .50.0208333333333 cup honey
• 50.208333333333 eggs
• 20.0833333333333 cups flour
• 10.0416666666667 tsp cinnamon
• 10.0416666666667 tsp baking powder
• 60.25 tbsp orange juice

Steps

1. Make cake batter by creaming together margarine, sugar, honey. Add beaten eggs. Sift together the flour, cinnamon, baking power and add alternately with the orange juice. In a large container put the candied fruit, walnuts, dates, raisins, and coconut. Pour batter over the fruit and mix together. Makes two loaf pans, or can be baked in a well-greased bundt cake pan or an angel food cake pan. Bake at 250F 3-1/2 to 4 hours. Put a small pan of water in the bottom of the oven for a glazed and moist texture. Can decorate the top of the cake with red maraschino cherries and green fruit from the fruit mix.