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

   1.00 c  Butter/Margarine, Melted
   1.75 c  Sugar
   3.00 c  Unbleached All-purpose Flour
   1.00 ts Baking Soda
   1.00 ts Ground Cinnamon
   0.50 ts Salt
   0.25 ts Ground Cloves
   0.25 ts Ground Nutmeg
   2.00    Large Eggs
   2.00 c  Brandied Fruit
   1.00 c  Chopped Pecans
   0.25 c  Brandied Fruit Juice

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  15.50 oz (1 Cn) Pineapple Chunks
  16.00 oz (1 cn) Sliced Peaches
  17.00 oz (1 cn) Apricot Halves
  10.00 oz (1 jr) Maraschino
   1.25 c  Sugar
   1.25 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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