Glorious golden fruitcake Recipe

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Glorious golden fruitcake

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Ingredients:

4	cup	Unbleached Flour, Sifted
1 1/2	tsp	Baking Powder
1/2	tsp	Salt
2	cup	Butter Or Regular Margarine
2 1/2	cup	Sugar
6		Eggs, Lg
1/4	cup	Milk
4	cup	Walnuts, Chopped
1	cup	Golden Raisins
1/2	cup	Candied Pineapple, Chopped
1/2	cup	Red Candied Cherries, Chopped
1/2	cup	Green Candied Cherries, Chop
1	tbsp	Lemon Rind, Grated
		Pineapple Glaze
		Pecan Halves

Procedures:

1	Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together and reserve ?c of the flour mixture.
2	Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, using an electric mixer at medium speed.
3	Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
4	Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk, beating well after each addition.
5	Combine the walnuts, raisins, pineapple, candied cherries, lemon rind and the ?cup of reserved flour mixture until all are very well coated.
6	Stir into the batter.
7	Spread the batter in a greased and wax-paper lined 10-inch tube pan.
8	Bake in a 275 °F.
9	(that is correct, 275 °F).
10	Oven for 2 hours and 45 minutes or until done.
11	Cool in the pan for 30 minutes before removing to a wire rack to completely cool.
12	Wrap the fruitcake tightly in foil.
13	Store in the refrigerator up to 4 weeks.
14	When ready to serve or to make a gift of it, prepare the pineapple glaze, and frost the top of the cake, letting the glaze drip down the sides.
15	Decorate with the pecan halves.
16	makes one 5 lb fruit cake.
17	Pineapple glaze:
18	combine 1 cup of sifted confectioners" sugar and 2 t of pineapple juice, mixing until smooth.