Christmas Pecan Cake
Source of Recipe
Aunt Saunny
2 cups butter
2 cups sugar
6 eggs
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1 tablespoon vanilla
3 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups golden raisins
4 cups pecan halves
Cream together butter and sugar; beat in eggs 2 at a time. Add lemon juice, grated lemon peel and vanilla. Mix raisins, nuts and 1/2 cup flour. Sift remaining dry ingredients. Alternately fold in nuts, raisins and dry ingredients into the creamedmixture. Spoon into greased paper-lined 10-inch tube pan. Bake 1 hour 50 minutes at 300 degrees. Cool before removing from pan.
Variation: For a sweeter, more moist cake, pour on a syrup of 1/4 cup each lemon juice, orange juice and sugar while it is still warm from the oven.
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