Serves: 6-8

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1  cup sugar
• 5 eggs
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 qt. of pecans or walnuts
• 1 cup raisins (may substitute dates, figs, or dried appricots)
• 1 cup diced marachino cherries)
• 2 tablespoons vanilla

Preparation time
20 minutes

Preparation
Cream butter and sugar with mixer. Beat eggs thoroughly and add to creamed mixture. Now add in vanilla flavoring.

Make certain nuts and cherries are cut into small pieces. In a separate bowl add cherries, nuts and raisins. Cover all with flour and mix until even.

Add creamed mixture to nut mixture (or vise versa – what ever is in the bigger bowl). Place wax paper in botton of round cake pan. Pour in ingredients. Bake at 300 degrees F. for one hour and twenty minutes.