GrandmamaS Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb butter
• 2 34 c light brown sugar
• 12 eggs
• 12 c orange juice
• 12 c grape juice
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1 c buttermilk
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 c jelly
• 6 c plain flour
• 1 lb container mixed fruit cake fruit
• 2 Tbsp cinnamon
• 1 Tbsp nutmeg
• 2 tsp cloves
• 2 c raisins
• 2 c dates chopped
• 12 c lemon peel
• 12 c orange peel
• 2 c cherries 1 lb chopped
• 2 c pineapple crystallized chopped
• 1 lb pecans

Directions

1. Mix butter eggs sugar juices buttermilk with the soda in it and jelly then add 4 cups flour and put the other 2 cups over the fruit coat it real well
2. Then add all the spices and the butter and egg mixture to the fruit then add the pecans
3. Mix well and bake at 250 for 3 12 hours if using a steeple pan or less time for loaf pans
4. Line bottom of the pans with paper from grocery bags cut to fit grease this real good and dust with flour
5. Test cakes to be sure if they have cooked long enough