Recipe - Fermented Fruit Friendship Cake

1 Yellow cake mix, 2 layer
1 Pudding mix
4 Eggs
2/3 cup Oil
2 teaspoon Orange extract
1 One half cup Fermented Fruit Starter
1 cup Chopped nuts
1 cup Golden raisins

FERMENTED FRUIT STARTER
20 ounce Sliced peaches, chopped
7 One half cup Sugar, divided
1 pack Dry yeast
20 ounce Pineapple, crushed
10 ounce Maraschino cherries
30 ounce Fruit cocktail, cut

Use cake mix without pudding. For pudding, use 4serving size; vanilla,
lemon or pistachio instant pudding. Preheat oven to 350 deg. Combine cake
and pudding mixes, eggs, oil, and orange extract in a large bowl. Add
fruits, nuts and raisins, mix thoroughly. Pour into greased, floured tube
pan and bake one hour. Let cool 15 minutes before removing from the pan.
Makes 1216 servings. Fermented Fruit Starter: Do not drain fruit. Combine
peaches and 2One half cup sugar and yeast in a 1gallon glass or crockery jar
with a loose fitting lid, stir to mix. Stir daily for 10 days. On the 10th
day, add pineapple and 2One half cup sugar. Stir daily for another 10 days. Add
cherries, fruit cocktail and remaining sugar and stir daily for 10 more
days. Drain fruit, reserve juice for the next batch. Makes enough fruit for
4 cakes. To make more starter, use 1One half cups starter juice instead of
yeast with peaches and sugar.

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #518 by Danette danette@bellsouth.net on
Mar 15, 1997