Title: Friendship Cake5
Categories: Cake
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. From: Michael Orchekowski Date: 08-03-93

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