Grandma’s White Fruit Cake

Posted by ljmacphee on March 19, 2007 under Dessert, Grandmother's Recipes |

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 jar fruits and peels or 3 small cans assorted
1 cup white seedless raisins
3/4 cup walnuts
1/4 cup orange juice

Mix fruits, raisins and chopped nuts
add 1/2 cup flour and mix well

sift together the remaining quantity of flour with baking powder and salt

beat eqqs until light

cream the butter

add sugar gradually to butter and cream well
add eqqs and beat well
add dry ingredients alternately with liquid
stir in the floured fruits and nuts

bake at 250 degrees about 2 hours
makes 3 1/2 pounds

** one cup dates and 1 cup currants may be added if desired

Bake at least a day ahead of when it is to be used, and wrap tightly in tin foil to store.

This is an old handwritten recipe of my Grandmother’s I found. The Irish and Scottish have many fruitcake recipes from the White Fruit Cake here to a Black Scottish Fruit Cake.