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ENGLISH TEA CAKE

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 c Butter, softened
  • 1 c Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 Scant c flour
  • 1/2 ts Baking powder
  • 1/4 ts Salt
  • 1 t Vanilla
  • 1 tb Cherry juice
  • 12 Maraschino cherries
  • 1/2 c White raisins or currants

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Grease and flour a small tube pan. Cream
  2. butter and sugar. Add eggs, beating thoroughly. Sift flour, baking powder
  3. and salt together. Gradually add to butter mixture. Add vanilla and cherry
  4. juice. Fold in cherries and raisins. Bake 1 1/4 hours
Yield
6