Grandma Julia Gotfredson’s White Fruit Cake

Ingredients:
1 # butter or margarine
1 # sugar
4 c flour
1 # candies cherries
1 # candied pineapple
1 # white raisins
1 dz eggs
4 c coconut
1 # pecans or slivered almonds
½ c apricot nectar

Directions:
Mix fruit and nectar and let stand overnight. Cream butter and sugar together. Separate eggs. Beat egg yolks and add to butter and sugar then add flour. Mix in fruit. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into other ingredients. Grease and flour bread pans. Bake at 250º for 3 hours if using regular bread loaf pans. If using mini pans cut time to 1-½ hours—toothpick should come out clean. Store tightly wrapped.