Ingredients
- 3 1/2 apricots
 - 3 1/2 plums
 - 2 5/8 oranges
 - 2 cherry liquor
 - 1 powdered sugar
 - 1 kardamom powder
 - 1/2 ingwer powder
 - 650 gr pears
 - 500 gr flour
 - 120 ml warm water
 - 100 gr walnutmeat
 - 85 gr sugar
 - 70 gr raisins
 - 60 gr dates
 - 40 gr yeast
 - 28 gr butter
 - 3 gr salt
 - 3 gr cinnamon
 - 1 gr orangepeel
 
the walnuts. 3. Break up the yeast and mix with one teaspoon sugar and the lukewarm water and cover it and let stand on a warm place for 10 minutes. 4. Melt the butter and mix with salt and flour; add the yeastmix and knead, cover and let it rise on a warm place until doubled in size. 5. Mix raisins, sugar, grated lemonpeel, cinnamon, cloves, ingwer, cardamom and the dried fruits and the nuts; knead them into dough. 6. Form a loaf and put onto a waxpaper covered cookiesheet. 7. Preheat oven to 200 C and bake for 75 minutes. 8. When cool sprinkle with a little powdered sugar. Out of Funk Uhr magazine Translated by Brigitte Sealing