Fruitcake (from 1950) - Kentucky Living

Ingredients

• 1 lb. sugar
• 3/4 pound butter
• 1 lb. flour
• 11 eggs
• 1 lb. pecans
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons each of cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg
• 3 teaspoons mace
• Soak the following overnight in whiskey or wine
• 3 lbs. candied cherries cut in half
• 3 lbs. candied pineapple cut in large pieces
• 1 lb. citron cut in fine strips