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White Fruitcake

(from Grandma Bauer)

• 1 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 cup apricot nectar
• 2 cups blanched almond slivers
• 1 cup golden raisins
• 1 cup sliced dried apricots
• 4 cups "fruit cake" mix (candied orange peel, citron, cherries, and pineapple)

Cream shortening, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Sift together flour, salt, and baking powder. Add the wet and dry ingredients alternately with the apricot nectar. Add almonds, raisins, dried apricots, and fruit cake mix.

Bake in greased, floured pan at 300°F about 2 1/4 hours.

Makes 5 pounds.

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