Pollie Ponders...Again

Hey there:

Without further adieu, here's today's recipe contribution:

Mary's Christmas Cake

(Dixie Wardell)

1 lb. butter
2 cups sugar
12 eggs
4 cups flour
2 tsp soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp allspice
½ tsp gloves
½ tsp salt
1 lb seeded raisins
1 lb seedless raisins
1 lb dates (chopped)
1 lb mixed glazed fruit
1 lb candied cherries
1 small bottle maraschino cherries and juice
½ lb citron peel
¼ lb lemon peel
¼ lb orange peel
¼ lb candied pineapple
½ lb blanched almonds
¼ lb pecans
1-cup apple or grape jelly
1 tbsp rum flavoring
1 tbsp vanilla
1 tbsp lemon extract
½ tsp almond extract

Get fruit ready (almonds and walnuts too). Mix in a large bowl.
Put 2 cups flour over fruit and mix well.
Beat butter well (have it real soft). Beat sugar in well. Beat eggs well.
Add the rest of your flavoring to butter, sugar and egg mixture and mix well.
Put 2 cups of flour and the rest of the dry ingredients in another bowl and mix well. Add to butter mixture and mix well.
Then pour over all your fruit and mix well
Bake in lined loaf pans for 3 hours in a slow oven
Makes about five loaves.

Dixie says: “This is the recipe that Grandma Giasson used to make. I’ve been making it for quite a few years when she couldn’t make it anymore and asked me to. Now I can’t stop!”

Get your recipe to me at pclark@reporters.net

Pollie