8 ounces pitted dates
1 quart pecans -- or walnuts
3 slices candied pineapple
1 cup candied cherries -- red
1 cup candied cherries -- green
1 cup golden raisins
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup bourbon
|Flour each piece of fruit sot that it stands out alone. (I sprinkle with a
shaker)

Beat together until fluffy the eggs and sugar.

Add flour baking powder, salt and vanilla. Add fruit and nuts. Add
bourbon.

Bake in 250 degree oven for 2 1/2 hours. top will be brown and crusty. It
dries more thank bakes really. Add fruit and nuts to top of cake for
decorations.

Makes 2 loves, they are not thick loaves.