Recipe - Bourbon Fruit Cake

4 cup Flour; Sifted
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
4 teaspoon Nutmeg
1 cup Butter
2 cup Sugar
6 Whole Eggs
One half cup Bourbon
4 cup Pecans; Coarsely Chopped
1 pound Seeded Light Raisins
One half cup Candied Cherries; Green &
Red Sliced

1. Sift flour and baking powder and nutmeg together.

2. Cream butter, add sugar and cream until fluffy.

3. beat in eggs, one at a time.

4. Add dry ingredients alternately with bourbon.

5. Stir in nuts, raisins and cherries.

6. Turn mixture into well greased 10" tube pan.

7. Bake at 300 degrees for 2 hours or until straw inserted in cake comes
out clean.

8. Remove from oven and let stand in pan for 20 minutes.

9. Take out of pan and cool on rack. If you wish, sprinkle more bourbon on
cake when it has cooled.

10. Wrap in foil or put in container.

11. Occasionally, sprinkle with more bourbon if you wish. Keeps well.

12. Before serving, sift powdered sugar over surface.

Recipe by: diane@keyway.net

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 196 by "Diane Geary"
diane@keyway.net on Nov 4, 1997