Christmas [fruit] cake
12 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2¼ | cup | Flour |
| 1 | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ½ | cup | Shortening |
| ½ | cup | Butter |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| 5 | Eggs | |
| 1 | teaspoon | Lemon flavoring |
| 1 | tablespoon | Brandy |
| ¾ | cup | Blanched; chopped almonds |
| 1 | cup | Shredded moist coconut |
| ¼ | cup | Candied lemon peel; chopped |
Directions
Sift flour, measure add baking powder salt and sift again. Cream shortening and butter together, add sugar, cream until well blended. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Mix in lemon, and brandy...then almonds and coconut. Add dry ingredients. Turn batter into greased and floured 9 inch tube pan.
Bake in slow [300] degree oven. for 1¼ hours. when cool store in air tight container.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #267 by Silkia@... on Oct 10, 1997