Instructions:

Nut Cake Deluxe

1 pound butter
2 cups granulated sugar
6 eggs, beaten
4 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 pound candied cherries, cut up
1/2 pound candied pineapple, cut up
1 pound pecans, chopped
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 250 degrees F.

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs. Add 3 cups flour sifted with baking powder and salt. Mix remaining flour with cherries, pineapple and chopped pecans; stir into batter. Add vanilla extract. Pour into tube pan, greased and double lined with wax paper. Bake for 3 hours. Cool in pan.