Uncle Carl’s Old English Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 2 lbs Mixed Candied Fruit
• 1 lb Dates chopped
• 15 oz Raisins seedless
• 15 oz Golden raisins seedless
• 1 lb Walnuts chopped
• 8 fl oz Elderberry Wine or Brandy
• 1/2 cup Current or Mint Jelly
• 3/4 cup Honey
• 1/3 cup Molasses or Dark Karo
• 5 cup Flour sifted
• 1 tsp Baking soda
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1/2 tsp Ground cloves
• 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
• 1 lb Brown sugar
• 8 Egg beaten
• 1 lb Margarine
• 8 oz Cherries whole red or green
• 8 oz Whole almonds blanched

Instructions

1. Mix and sift flour, soda and spices. Cream butter thoroughly; add sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy; beat in eggs, then fruits and nuts. Add jelly, honey and molasses, and beat well. Add flour mixture gradually, mixing well after each addition.
2. Turn into 2 paper-lined, greased tube pans. Bake in slow oven (250 degrees F) 3 1/2 hours, or until cake is firm to the touch.
3. Cool in pan. Remove paper, wrap in waxed paper and store in air-tight can.