Here's mine, just replace the nuts with more fruit.


* Exported from MasterCook *

Helen's Light Fruit Cake

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Serving Size : 10 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Family

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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-----MM BY HELEN PEAGRAM-----
1/2 lb Glace pineapple
2 lb Sultanas
1 lb Glace cherries (red &
Green)
1 lb Almonds
5 c Flour
1 t Baking powder
1 lb Butter
2 c Sugar (1 lb)
1/2 ts Nutmeg
10 Eggs
1 Lemon, juice & rind
1 Orange,juice & rind
1 t Rose ext
1 t Almond ext

1. Clean sultanas, slice pineapple thinly, halve cherries. 2. Mix and
sift flour, baking powder and spice and add half to prepared fruit.
3. In a large bowl, cream butter and gradually beat in sugar. 4. Add
well beaten eggs and beat well. 5. Fold other half of flour mixture
into creamed mixture alternately with juices and beat well. 6. Add
fruit to to creamed mixture. Combine mixture til thoroughly blended.
Split almonds and add to mixture, saving some whole for top. Add
flavourings. 7. Pour mixture into cake pans which have been lined
with 3 thicknesses of newspaper, with top layer of greased wax paper.
8. Bake cake at 275 F. for approximately 3 hours or til firm and
until cake mixture is firm when pressed. 9. Cool on cake rack until
thoroughly cold. Wrap in foil and store in cake tins.

Makes 2 large or 1 large and 2 loaf tins.




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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 887 Calories; 66g Fat (65.1% calories
from fat); 21g Protein; 58g Carbohydrate; 7g Dietary Fiber; 286mg
Cholesterol; 485mg Sodium. Exchanges: 3 1/2 Grain(Starch); 2 Lean Meat; 12
Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates.




"The Goods" wrote in message
...
A little background he

My mother-in-law has made a lovely white fruitcake for years. In fact, it
was a country fair prize winner. For several years I have repeatedly
asked
her for the recipe, especially because my oldest son (HER grandson) likes
it
and I would like to have it to pass on to him (you know - "here's your
grandmother's beloved fruitcake recipe", etc.). Well, for reasons known
only to her, she just smiles (smirks?) and says nothing (ok, maybe there
are
some issues here). Imagine my surprise when her other daughter-in-law
(the
"favorite") announced to me recently that MIL gave her the recipe ages ago
(and no, I will not ask SIL for the recipe - more issues). Okay, I give
up.

Does anyone have a recipe for a white fruitcake that meets the following
criteria:

- must be VERY moist
- must be full of bright colored fruit
- does NOT contain any nuts
- has no fancy topping, just the lightly browned top of the cake.

Thanks for any help. You may just avert a family crisis.

Jan