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

     1 c  Butter/Margarine, Melted
 1 3/4 c  Sugar
     3 c  Unbleached All-purpose Flour
     1 ts Baking Soda
     1 ts Ground Cinnamon
   1/2 ts Salt
   1/4 ts Ground Cloves
   1/4 ts Ground Nutmeg
     2    Large Eggs
     2 c  Brandied Fruit
     1 c  Chopped Pecans
   1/4 c  Brandied Fruit Juice

---------------------------BRANDED FRUIT STARTER---------------------------
15 1/2 oz (1 Cn) Pineapple Chunks
    16 oz (1 cn) Sliced Peaches
    17 oz (1 cn) Apricot Halves
    10 oz (1 jr) Maraschino
 1 1/4 c  Sugar
 1 1/4 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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