Recipe - Friendship Cake-Amish

1 cup Butter/Margarine, Melted
1 Three fourths cup Sugar
3 cup Unbleached Allpurpose Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
One half teaspoon Salt
One fourth teaspoon Ground Cloves
One fourth teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
2 Large Eggs
2 cup Brandied Fruit
1 cup Chopped Pecans
One fourth cup Brandied Fruit Juice

BRANDED FRUIT STARTER
15 One half ounce (1 Cn) Pineapple Chunks
16 ounce (1 cn) Sliced Peaches
17 ounce (1 cn) Apricot Halves
10 ounce (1 jr) Maraschino
1 One fourth cup Sugar
1 One fourth cup Brandy (Any Brand)

Combine butter and sugar in large mixing bowl. Beat well. Combine next 6
ingredients. Beat well. Add eggs. Coarse chop brandied fruit and stir into
batter. Add pecans and juice. Mix well. Pour batter into wellgreased 10
inch bundt pan. Bake at 350 degree F. oven for 1 hour. Cool in pan 10
minutes, then remove from pan. BRANDIED FRUIT STARTER: Drain all canned
fruit. Combine all ingredients in clean, nonmettalic bowl. Stir gently.
Cover and let stand at room temperature for 3 weeks, stirring twice per
week. As you use it, replace the amount taken with 1 cup sugar. Cover and
let stand at room temperature 3 days before using again. Yields 6 cups of
brandied fruit. Submitted By MICHAEL ORCHEKOWSKI MSG#: 1883