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Friendship Cake-Amish Recipe


   
Recipe Categories: Cake Recipes
Average Rating: (11 votes)
Yield: 8 servings
 
Ingredients
  1  c Butter/Margarine, Melted  
  1 3/4  c Sugar  
  3  c Unbleached All-purpose Flour  
  1  ts Baking Soda  
  1  ts Ground Cinnamon  
  1/2  ts Salt  
  1/4  ts Ground Cloves  
  1/4  ts Ground Nutmeg  
  2   Large Eggs  
  2  c Brandied Fruit  
  1  c Chopped Pecans  
  1/4  c Brandied Fruit Juice  
  -------BRANDIED FRUIT STARTER------------  
  15 1/2  oz (1 Cn) Pineapple Chunks  
  16  oz (1 cn) Sliced Peaches  
  17  oz (1 cn) Apricot Halves  
  10  oz (1 jr) Maraschino  
  1 1/4  c Sugar  
  1 1/4  c Brandy (Any Brand)  
 
Instructions
 
  1. 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 well-greased 10 inch bundt pan. Bake at 350 degree F. oven for 1 hour. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then remove from pan.

 
  2. 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

 
   


 



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