Fruit Cake

Fruit Cake

2 sticks of butter

½ lb. of dark brown sugar

2 cups flour

½ cup honey

½ tsp. salt

½ cup orange juice

1 tsp. baking power

1 tsp. vanilla

2 lbs. mixed fruit

1 lb raisins

1 lb currants

1 lb. cherries (cut-up, save a few whole ones for the top

4 eggs

2 cups walnuts (cut-up, save few ones for the top)

Cream butter, sugar  and vanilla. Add well-beaten eggs and honey. Shift in a little at a time, 1 ½ cup flour, salt and baking power. Add juice alternately to cream mixture.

In another bowl mix all the fruit and nuts with ½ cup flour. This keeps the fruit from sticking together.

Add fruit mix and little at a tine to wet ingredients until all combined.

Bake in a 250 oven for about 3 hrs. Place a pan with 2 cups of water in the bottom of the oven.