Fruit Pound Cake

Submitted by Traci Jeff Poole2

"Pound cake with fruit."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 39mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 1 cake

ingredients

• 1 cup shortening
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
• 1⁄8 teaspoon mace
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄2 cup seedless raisin
• 1⁄3 cup cherries, from a jar, chopped
• 1⁄4 cup orange rind, grated
• 1⁄4 lemon, rind of, grated
• 1⁄4 cup nuts, chopped

directions

1. Cream shortening and sugar together.
2. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
3. Add flour, salt, mace. Mix again.
4. Add vanilla and beat. Add remaining ingredients and mix very well.
5. Bake in a greased loaf pan for 60 -80 minutes with the oven temp set at 350*.
6. **NOTE: To make a basic pound cake, the use above recipe, OMITTING the fruit and follow directions for baking/preparing.**.