Recipe - Pecan Christmas Cake

1 pound Butter
2 cup Sugar
6 Eggs
1 tablespoon Lemon juice
1 teaspoon Lemon peel; grated
1 tablespoon Vanilla
1 One half cup Golden raisins
4 cup Pecans; chopped
3 cup Flour
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking powder

Cream butter & sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add lemon
juice, peel & vanilla. Mix raisins, nuts & One fourth cup flour. Sift remaining
dry ingredients. Alternately fold nuts & raisins and dry ingredients into
creamed mixture. Spoon into a greased, paper linde 10inch tube pan. Bake
in slow oven (at 300) about 1 hour and 50 minutes. Cool. Remove from pan.
(I use small loaf pans.) VARIATION: For a sweeter, more moist cake, pour a
syrup made from One fourth cup orange juice, One fourth cup lemon juice & One fourth cup sugar
over cake while it is still hot.

HELEN SIZEMORE

BALD KNOB, AR

From Simply Southern, the Desoto School Mothers' Assn, HelenaWest
Helena, AR 72390. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
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