Friendship Cake

Ingredients

230 gr butter
600 gr sugar
375 gr unbleached all-purpose flour
5 gr baking soda
3 gr cinnamon
1 gr salt
1 gr nutmeg
2 eggs
2 brandied fruit
140 gr pecans
60 ml brandied fruit juice
1 jr
280 gr brandy

Instructions

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 25 cm bundt pan. Bake at 180ÂșC . 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