Old Fashioned Fruit Cake #4

Ingredients

170 gr butter
200 gr sugar
120 ml molasses
120 ml grape juice
180 ml sour milk
325 gr blackberry jam
240 ml watermelon rind preserves
1 fig preserves
375 gr flour
550 gr pecans
10 ml soda
8 eggs
2 apples
1 gr salt
1 raisins
240 gr candied pineapple
1 candied cherries
7 gr cocoa

Instructions

half cup of each). Mix the above, cook in a greased iron skillet with wax paper lining, cook on 300 degrees. This cake freezes well. My mother made 3 of the above cakes shortly before Thanksgiving, one was cut for Thanksgiving, one for Christmas and one for New Year's. They were placed in a cupboard on the back porch. As we brought in the wood for the night it was stocked on the porch near this old cupboard. (My mother's Grandmother Curtis, Granny was a descendant of Richard Curtis the first Baptist Preacher in this area from South Carolina). My what an aroma! And the taste was there too. Mother of Ilda Jackson, Hazle White Ruby M. Pray ----