Share the Family Recipes!

Several years ago, I started a cookbook project, with the intent to compile recipes from each of Dell and Pearl's children and their families. Several recipes were collected and I began researching the options for having them published . . . and it was more time-consuming and expensive than I anticipated . . . then all the recipes got stuck in a drawer and thought about less and less.

Until now. Who needs another book on a shelf? We're going online! I am still adding all the recipes I was sent years ago, but it's a start. (Notice the recipes submitted from kids who are now teens?) And I'd love to continue adding! So if you have a recipe to add to our family cookbook, please send it to me in an email and I will get it right up! Feel free to add any anecdotes attached to the dish too. Photos would be great as well!

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Happy eating!

Cherry Fruit Cake

Rosalie Robison Risk

1 ½ cup flour, sifted
2 jars (16 oz) maraschino cherries, drained
1 ½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
18 oz (5 ½ cups) pecan halves
1 teaspoon salt
6 eggs
2 packages (7 ¼ oz) pitted dates
1/3 cup orange juice
1 lb. diced candied pineapple
½ cup light corn syrup
Grease 2 9x5x3” loaf pans (or 6 small disposable loaf pans); line with foil, allowing 2” overhang, grease again. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into very large mixing bowl; add fruits and pecans and toss until well coated. Beat eggs and orange juice thoroughly; pour over fruit mixture. Toss until well combined. Turn mixture into prepared pans, pressing to pack tightly. Fill pans full, they don't rise much. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 ¾ hours or till toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pans 15 minutes, remove from pans and tear off foil. Brush loaves with corn syrup while warm. Cool thoroughly before storing.

Source: One of my many magazines, a long time ago. It's my favorite fruit cake recipe. About the only one I ever use. After I gave it to Mom, it became her favorite also.
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