Friendship Cake-Amish

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Title: FRIENDSHIP CAKE-AMISH
Categories: Cakes
Yield: 8 Servings

1.00 c Butter/Margarine, Melted
1.75 c Sugar
3.00 c Unbleached All-purpose Flour
1.00 ts Baking Soda
1.00 ts Ground Cinnamon
0.50 ts Salt
0.25 ts Ground Cloves
0.25 ts Ground Nutmeg
2.00 Large Eggs
2.00 c Brandied Fruit
1.00 c Chopped Pecans
0.25 c Brandied Fruit Juice

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15.50 oz (1 Cn) Pineapple Chunks
16.00 oz (1 cn) Sliced Peaches
17.00 oz (1 cn) Apricot Halves
10.00 oz (1 jr) Maraschino
1.25 c Sugar
1.25 c Brandy (Any Brand)

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. 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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