Fruit Cake

1 # pitted dates
1/2 # candied cherries
1/2 # candied sliced pineapples
1 # coarsely chopped pecans
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp nutmeg (1 tsp cinnamon & 1/2 tsp allspice)
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla


Line angel food tub pan with brown paper.  Cut fruit into small pieces.  Mix with pecans.  Sift dry ingredients together.  Mix with fruit & nuts. Beat eggs & vanilla together.  Pour over fruit mixture. Mix well.  Pack into pan.  Back for 2 hr @ 250 degrees.


Top of fruit cake may be decorated by removing from oven after 1 hour, garnish with pineapple slices, halved cherries and pecan halves.


Return to oven to complete baking time.  Cool or Cook cake throughly in pan.

Although it does not look to be as tough as I thought it would be, it is still an ambitious undertaking.  I don't know what the last sentence actually says.  I think it says cook, but then again, it might say cool.